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Post #195,296
by drewk
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2/17/05 11:01:29 PM
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New Read it out loud
Remember the old rhyme/mnemonic for spelling Mississippi when you were six?

"Em - eye - crooked letter - crooked letter - eye ...
crooked letter - crooked letter - eye ...
humpback - humpback - eye."

Now read this:

p proc {|builder| proc { |n|\n    builder.call(builder).call(n)
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Post #195,395
by ben_tilly
2/18/05 1:21:18 PM
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New I detect glazed over eyes
I was going to cement that by writing a version of factorial that just used recursion (without assignment of course!) to reduce everything down to +1, -1. But Ruby lost track of how many braces were open. :-(

There's a moral there somewhere...

Cheers,
Ben
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
     OT: Inner/outer classes. - (pwhysall) - (30) - Feb. 14, 2005, 05:27:22 AM EST
         Simple explanation: - (admin) - Feb. 14, 2005, 08:13:23 AM EST
         Wheras an "outer" class is just an ordinary class. -NT - (CRConrad) - Feb. 14, 2005, 10:26:56 AM EST
         There's some other types as well - (ChrisR) - Feb. 14, 2005, 11:44:54 AM EST
         Also how Java fakes friendship - (tuberculosis) - Feb. 14, 2005, 12:02:43 PM EST
         Inner class is declared inside another class - (Arkadiy) - Feb. 14, 2005, 12:08:47 PM EST
         Thanks all - (pwhysall) - (24) - Feb. 14, 2005, 12:46:06 PM EST
             Re: Thanks all - (systems) - (23) - Feb. 16, 2005, 07:11:30 AM EST
                 You misunderstand, on at least one issue: - (CRConrad) - (1) - Feb. 16, 2005, 09:23:42 AM EST
                     No, they can be used as factories as well. - (admin) - Feb. 16, 2005, 09:41:31 AM EST
                 s/callbacks/delegates/g - (ChrisR) - (3) - Feb. 16, 2005, 10:00:29 AM EST
                     Yep, one of the uglier useful things in Java. :-P -NT - (admin) - Feb. 16, 2005, 10:29:53 AM EST
                     ICLRPD (new thread) - (drewk) - Feb. 16, 2005, 11:37:54 AM EST
                     Great - another perfectly good term hijacked and hosed (new thread) - (tuberculosis) - Feb. 16, 2005, 12:11:15 PM EST
                 You can't do #3 - (ben_tilly) - (3) - Feb. 16, 2005, 10:29:47 AM EST
                     For most uses... - (admin) - (2) - Feb. 16, 2005, 10:47:59 AM EST
                         I did find that interesting. One major complaint down. - (ben_tilly) - (1) - Feb. 16, 2005, 11:02:12 AM EST
                             You'll find this interesting too - Bistro - (tuberculosis) - Feb. 16, 2005, 12:17:55 PM EST
                 They sorta stink as closures - (Arkadiy) - (12) - Feb. 16, 2005, 12:15:19 PM EST
                     You need Jim Weirich's... - (ChrisR) - (11) - Feb. 16, 2005, 03:07:11 PM EST
                         Without being rude... - (pwhysall) - (4) - Feb. 16, 2005, 03:09:31 PM EST
                             A recursive anonymous function... - (ChrisR) - (3) - Feb. 16, 2005, 03:23:52 PM EST
                                 Is it just interesting, or is it useful? - (pwhysall) - (2) - Feb. 16, 2005, 03:34:25 PM EST
                                     Well, in Java it's pretty useless. -NT - (ChrisR) - Feb. 16, 2005, 04:02:59 PM EST
                                     It's a pretty basic feature found in functional languages - (jake123) - Feb. 16, 2005, 05:16:04 PM EST
                         Re: You need Jim Weirich's... - (JimWeirich) - (5) - Feb. 17, 2005, 04:17:32 PM EST
                             I've just followed the first step of execution - (Arkadiy) - (4) - Feb. 17, 2005, 05:39:07 PM EST
                                 I understand it! - (ben_tilly) - (3) - Feb. 17, 2005, 10:24:40 PM EST
                                     Read it out loud - (drewk) - (1) - Feb. 17, 2005, 11:01:29 PM EST
                                         I detect glazed over eyes - (ben_tilly) - Feb. 18, 2005, 01:21:18 PM EST
                                     This was as brilliant an explanation as I've ever seen - (Arkadiy) - Feb. 18, 2005, 10:19:36 AM EST

It's like a nuclear blast in the basement.
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