[REBOL] Re: What's wrong with Ruby
From: w_a_x_man::yahoo at: 27-Mar-2007 13:31
--- Paavo Nevalainen <Paavo.Nevalainen-saunalahti.fi> wrote:
> I taught students some basic principles of programming,
> including concepts of algorithm, function, and such. One
> result of the course was list of small programing tasks
> implemented in various languages. An example was
> to pseudonymize one's name with these rules:
> 1) invert all words
> 2) initial letters to capitals
> 3) sort the shortest ones first
>
> As you see, Perl equivalent is not done. You can add it
> and post to me, if you wish. The codes do not have exactly
> same behaviour when input is completely odd (more than
> one capital letter per word, too short words and such).
>
>
> # Ruby: -----------------------------------------
>
> def pseudonymize(name)
> names= Array.[]
> name.reverse.downcase.each(' ') {
> |s| names << s.chomp(" ").capitalize
> }
> names.sort {|x,y| x.length <=> y.length}
> names= names.reverse
>
> out= ""
> names.each {|x| out << x << " "}
> out.chomp(" ")
> end
>
> p pseudonymize("Abu Baba Imaam")
def pseudonymize(name)
name.split.map{|s| s.reverse.capitalize}.
sort_by{|s| s.size}.join(' ')
end
puts pseudonymize( "Veronica von Wassenshaft" )
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