Hi --

On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Christian Szegedy wrote:

> > I highly recommend including the following disclaimer in every
> > golf-related post:
> >
> >   DISCLAIMER: I do not believe that reducing code to the
> >   smallest possible size is always or even usually a good
> >   idea.  However, I tend to learn a lot about Ruby from
> >   this kind of exercise, and that's why I do it.
> >
> >
>
>
> I haven't reduced the code size everywhere. I tried to maintain
> readability by using nice variable names, where possible, and
> I avoided using multiline { ... } blocks, which I hate.
> I think that reducing the code size is only one aspect of Ruby golf.
>
> The real chellange is to maximize the elegance of the code.

Ah, OK, that's cool, but it's not golf :-)


David

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