[#121980] SOT gmail invites — Lyndon Samson <lyndon.samson@...>

X % of the people of this list appear to be using GoogleMail, where X

93 messages 2004/12/01
[#122062] Re: SOT gmail invites — Steve Zich <szich@...> 2004/12/01

On 2004-11-30 19:26:08 -0800, Lyndon Samson <lyndon.samson@gmail.com> said:

[#122063] Re: SOT gmail invites — Robert McGovern <robert.mcgovern@...> 2004/12/01

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 02:17:45 +0900, Steve Zich >

[#122065] Re: SOT gmail invites — tony summerfelt <snowzone5@...> 2004/12/01

i've got 3 left...

[#122240] Re: SOT gmail invites — Stefan Schmiedl <s@...> 2004/12/02

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 12:34:29 +0900,

[#122246] Re: SOT gmail invites — Jamis Buck <jamis_buck@...> 2004/12/02

Stefan Schmiedl wrote:

[#122254] Re: SOT gmail invites — Carl Youngblood <carlwork@...> 2004/12/02

Jamis Buck wrote:

[#122397] Re: SOT gmail invites — Hans Fugal <hans@...> 2004/12/03

Carl Youngblood wrote:

[#122400] Re: SOT gmail invites — Carl Youngblood <carlwork@...> 2004/12/03

Hans Fugal wrote:

[#122427] Re: SOT gmail invites — Hans Fugal <hans@...> 2004/12/03

Carl Youngblood wrote:

[#122066] Re: SOT gmail invites — Pat Eyler <pate@...> 2004/12/01

I'd take one,

[#122072] Re: SOT gmail invites — tony summerfelt <snowzone5@...> 2004/12/01

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 02:58:33 +0900, you wrote:

[#122073] Re: SOT gmail invites — Mark Hubbart <discordantus@...> 2004/12/01

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 03:57:19 +0900, tony summerfelt

[#122075] Re: SOT gmail invites — Matt Maycock <ummaycoc@...> 2004/12/01

I've got some, too...

[#122112] Re: SOT gmail invites — Lyndon Samson <lyndon.samson@...> 2004/12/02

Ok, who missed out, I've got a couple left.

[#122120] Re: SOT gmail invites — Jamis Buck <jamis_buck@...> 2004/12/02

Lyndon Samson wrote:

[#122069] Rails with webrick slow as snails — Sarah Tanembaum <sarahtanembaum@...>

I've followed the sample installation

15 messages 2004/12/01
[#122071] Re: Rails with webrick slow as snails — David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...> 2004/12/01

> BUT

[#122083] Re: Rails with webrick slow as snails — Sarah Tanembaum <sarahtanembaum@...> 2004/12/01

David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:

[#122110] ordered hash ? — "itsme213" <itsme213@...>

Is there a pure-ruby ordered hash? I'm looking for something that will

44 messages 2004/12/02
[#122176] Re: ordered hash ? — Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@...> 2004/12/02

* itsme213 <itsme213@hotmail.com> [Dec 02, 2004 14:00]:

[#122156] Does anyone have benchmark programs for YARV? — SASADA Koichi <ko1@...>

Hi,

18 messages 2004/12/02

[#122177] nested defs, what if... — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>

This is too half-baked to be an RCR, but here goes...

17 messages 2004/12/02
[#122179] Re: nested defs, what if... — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2004/12/02

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 23:44:08 +0900, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng

[#122212] Re: nested defs, what if... — Brian =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Schr=F6der?= <ruby@...> 2004/12/02

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 23:57:09 +0900

[#122180] Net::SSH 0.6.0 — Jamis Buck <jamis_buck@...>

Here's another release of Net::SSH, your friendly neighborhood pure-Ruby

12 messages 2004/12/02

[#122288] Ruby documentation. — Adam Fabian <afabian@...>

I'm kind of getting the impression that Ruby might not be

31 messages 2004/12/03

[#122350] Crosswords (#10) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

18 messages 2004/12/03

[#122371] GC run at end of script execution - order in which objects are claimed? — Tilman Sauerbeck <tilman@...>

Hi,

13 messages 2004/12/03

[#122416] *sigh* Anyone having wireless working on a linux machine? — "Abraham Vionas" <abe_ml@...>

I've tried something like eight different distributions and the best I've

11 messages 2004/12/03

[#122444] Using yield — "Joe Van Dyk" <joe.vandyk@...>

I come from a heavy C++ background, discovered Ruby a few months ago and

26 messages 2004/12/04

[#122475] Ruby 2.0 — "Joe Van Dyk" <joe.vandyk@...>

When is Ruby 2.0 due? Or estimated due date?

44 messages 2004/12/04
[#122544] Re: Ruby 2.0 — w_a_x_man@... (William James) 2004/12/04

Brian Mitchell <binary42@gmail.com> wrote

[#122549] Re: Ruby 2.0 — Florian Gross <flgr@...> 2004/12/04

William James wrote:

[#122554] Re: Ruby 2.0 — Giovanni Intini <intinig@...> 2004/12/04

> 32.times{|y|print" "*(31-y),(0..y).map{|x|~y&x>0?" .":" A"},$/}

[#122604] Re: Ruby 2.0 — Florian Gross <flgr@...> 2004/12/05

Giovanni Intini wrote:

[#122619] patch to "make def return something useful" — Peter <Peter.Vanbroekhoven@...>

In RCR 277 it is proposed to have def return something useful, more

15 messages 2004/12/06

[#122630] Freezing Variable Assignment — Nicholas Van Weerdenburg <vanweerd@...>

Hi,

62 messages 2004/12/06
[#122740] Re: Freezing Variable Assignment — "itsme213" <itsme213@...> 2004/12/06

[#122762] Re: Freezing Variable Assignment — "itsme213" <itsme213@...> 2004/12/07

[#122766] Re: Freezing Variable Assignment — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2004/12/07

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 12:07:32 +0900, itsme213 <itsme213@hotmail.com>

[#122805] Re: Freezing Variable Assignment — Nicholas Van Weerdenburg <vanweerd@...> 2004/12/07

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 13:44:09 +0900, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:

[#122644] Signatures and one liners — Brian Mitchell <binary42@...>

readers.each{|x| puts "Hi #{x},"}

23 messages 2004/12/06

[#122645] Duck images — "Dave Burt" <dave@...>

Hi,

35 messages 2004/12/06
[#122697] Re: Duck images — ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson) 2004/12/06

In article <vcSsd.61264$K7.35690@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,

[#122713] Re: Duck images — "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@...> 2004/12/06

On Monday 06 December 2004 12:52 pm, Phil Tomson wrote:

[#122715] Re: Duck images — Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan@...> 2004/12/06

0>

[#122696] Ruby Article at Linux Journal — pat eyler <pat.eyler@...>

Hey, it looks like our own Ara Howard has been busy. He's got a cool

15 messages 2004/12/06

[#122775] Recommened readings? — "John" <jtrunek@...>

For one of my university courses, I have to complete a paper on Ruby.

13 messages 2004/12/07

[#122782] Ruby Weekly News 29th Nov - 5th Dec 2004 — timsuth@... (Tim Sutherland)

http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyNews/2004-11-29

12 messages 2004/12/07

[#122798] Idiom for creating hash from two arrays — Jonathan Paisley <jp-www@...>

Hello all,

22 messages 2004/12/07

[#122875] Re: [rcr] String#split behaves odd — "Pe, Botp" <botp@...>

Ryan Davis [mailto:ryand-ruby@zenspider.com] wrote:

30 messages 2004/12/08
[#122886] Re: [rcr] String#split behaves odd — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2004/12/08

Hi,

[#122894] Re: [rcr] String#split behaves odd — "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@...> 2004/12/08

On Wednesday 08 December 2004 12:00 am, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#122940] Re: [rcr] String#split behaves odd — Florian Frank <flori@...> 2004/12/08

On 2004-12-08 15:56:01 +0900, trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:

[#123046] Re: [rcr] String#split behaves odd — "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@...> 2004/12/09

On Wednesday 08 December 2004 10:00 am, Florian Frank wrote:

[#123068] Re: [rcr] String#split behaves odd — Glenn Parker <glenn.parker@...> 2004/12/09

trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:

[#123085] Re: [rcr] String#split behaves odd — "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@...> 2004/12/09

On Thursday 09 December 2004 08:19 am, Glenn Parker wrote:

[#123100] Re: String#split behaves odd — Ibraheem Umaru-Mohammed <iumarumohammed@...> 2004/12/09

++ trans. (T. Onoma) [ruby-talk] [10/12/04 00:43 +0900]:

[#123103] Re: String#split behaves odd — "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@...> 2004/12/09

On Thursday 09 December 2004 12:29 pm, Ibraheem Umaru-Mohammed wrote:

[#122918] RubyScript2Exe 0.2.0 — "Erik Veenstra" <pan@...>

28 messages 2004/12/08

[#123076] Crosswords (#10) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The summary for this week's quiz should be:

11 messages 2004/12/09

[#123137] Want to Write a Book? — Dave Thomas <dave@...>

Gentle Ruby folk:

40 messages 2004/12/10

[#123189] Learning Tic-Tac-Toe (#11) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

58 messages 2004/12/10
[#123196] Re: [QUIZ] Learning Tic-Tac-Toe (#11) — Brian =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Schr=F6der?= <ruby@...> 2004/12/10

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 23:29:02 +0900

[#123198] Re: [QUIZ] Learning Tic-Tac-Toe (#11) — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2004/12/10

On Dec 10, 2004, at 9:19 AM, Brian Schrer wrote:

[#123204] Re: [QUIZ] Learning Tic-Tac-Toe (#11) — Brian =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Schr=F6der?= <ruby@...> 2004/12/10

On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 00:42:04 +0900

[#123206] Re: [QUIZ] Learning Tic-Tac-Toe (#11) — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2004/12/10

On Dec 10, 2004, at 10:11 AM, Brian Schrer wrote:

[#123218] Re: [QUIZ] Learning Tic-Tac-Toe (#11) — Brian =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Schr=F6der?= <ruby@...> 2004/12/10

On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 01:22:30 +0900

[#123313] Re: [QUIZ] Learning Tic-Tac-Toe (#11) — Hans Fugal <fugalh@...> 2004/12/11

It would be good to be able to play against eachother when this is all

[#123195] iconv replacement for windows? — Thomas Leitner <t_leitner@...>

Hi,

17 messages 2004/12/10
[#123205] Re: iconv replacement for windows? — Thomas Leitner <t_leitner@...> 2004/12/10

On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 00:45:11 +0900

[#123222] How to make a deep copy of an object (Searching for Idiom) — Brian =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Schr=F6der?= <ruby@...>

Hello Group,

18 messages 2004/12/10

[#123317] puts / print as method not keyword? — zuzu <sean.zuzu@...>

so, i'm thinking about language design with a particular interest in

23 messages 2004/12/11
[#123319] Re: puts / print as method not keyword? — Ilmari Heikkinen <kig@...> 2004/12/11

[#123321] Re: puts / print as method not keyword? — zuzu <sean.zuzu@...> 2004/12/11

On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 05:23:10 +0900, Ilmari Heikkinen <kig@misfiring.net> wrote:

[#123351] Find every location of "th" in string. — "William James" <w_a_x_man@...>

Find location of every "th" in "the thin man thinks".

14 messages 2004/12/12

[#123426] Any bug/issue trackers written in Ruby? — "J. D." <jd@...>

Hi,

12 messages 2004/12/12

[#123454] Abstracts and Interfaces in Ruby? — Miles Keaton <mileskeaton@...>

What's the recommended Ruby way to do abstract classes and abstract methods?

12 messages 2004/12/13

[#123590] wxRuby and other GUI toolkits — Nick <devel@...>

24 messages 2004/12/14
[#123616] Re: wxRuby and other GUI toolkits — "itsme213" <itsme213@...> 2004/12/14

Any chance you could provide a simplified interface along the lines

[#123614] Apache2, FastCGI and Rails on Windows — "Williams, Chris" <Chris.Williams@...>

I've been running around in circles trying to enable FastCGI on my rails

20 messages 2004/12/14
[#123630] Re: Apache2, FastCGI and Rails on Windows — Kent Sibilev <ksibilev@...> 2004/12/14

I'm running my rails application on the same environment and it works

[#123825] Re: Apache2, FastCGI and Rails on Windows — Sarah Tanembaum <sarahtanembaum@...> 2004/12/16

Kent Sibilev wrote:

[#123831] Re: Apache2, FastCGI and Rails on Windows — Kent Sibilev <ksibilev@...> 2004/12/16

Oh, This is quite easy. I assume you have Ruby and RubyForApache

[#123626] Ruby Wiki engine w/ability to upload files — Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@...>

Hello again,

12 messages 2004/12/14

[#123661] rand.rb 0.9: Random access methods for Enumerables — Ilmari Heikkinen <kig@...>

Hello all, here's a little convenience library we whipped up a couple

17 messages 2004/12/15

[#123694] Re: [BUG] unknown node type 0 - SERIOUS ENOUGH TO MIGRATE AWAY FROM RUBY? — Andrew Walrond <andrew@...>

This is a long standing bug in Ruby, and has been reported hundreds of times

16 messages 2004/12/15

[#123740] P2P application in 15 lines of Python posted on slashdot — slonik AZ <slonik.az@...>

Hi Everybody,

16 messages 2004/12/15

[#123815] Ruby Cocoa (OS X) questions: deployment & interface builder — Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan@...>

Folks,

13 messages 2004/12/16

[#123852] Rails 0.9: Fast development, breakpoints, validations... — David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...>

Another huge upgrade with again close to 100 changes, additions, and

10 messages 2004/12/16

[#123898] Scrabble Stems (#12) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

22 messages 2004/12/17

[#123983] OT: vi useability question — Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>

Hello ruby-talk,

30 messages 2004/12/18
[#124013] Re: OT: vi useability question — Roeland Moors <roelandmoors@...> 2004/12/19

On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 08:07:28AM +0900, Lothar Scholz wrote:

[#124130] Re: OT: vi useability question — Hans Fugal <fugalh@...> 2004/12/20

Roeland Moors wrote:

[#124131] A RDoc template without frames — David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...>

Despite the snazzy look of the new default RDoc templates with three

21 messages 2004/12/20
[#124171] Re: A RDoc template without frames — "John W. Long" <ng@...> 2004/12/21

I did a design up once for something without frames:

[#124176] Re: A RDoc template without frames — why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...> 2004/12/21

John W. Long wrote:

[#124140] Is there any ruby compatible graphics/imaging utilities ... — Sarah Tanembaum <sarahtanembaum@...>

that works under native mswin323232 or at least with Cygwin X windows

16 messages 2004/12/20

[#124175] Text::Hyphen 1.0.0 — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>

I just told you that I'm releasing Text::Hyphen 1.0.0, and here it is

14 messages 2004/12/21

[#124182] curses - how to use unicode — Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>

Yesterday I got xterm working with UTF-8. I had made an oneliner that

13 messages 2004/12/21

[#124198] Re: OT: vi useability question — "Pe, Botp" <botp@...>

Mikael Brockman [mailto:mikael@phubuh.org] wrote:

28 messages 2004/12/21
[#124200] Re: OT: vi useability question — Dick Davies <rasputnik@...> 2004/12/21

* "Pe?a, Botp" <botp@delmonte-phil.com> [1210 11:10]:

[#124290] Re: OT: vi useability question — Fredrik Jagenheim <jagenheim@...> 2004/12/22

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 20:16:14 +0900, Dick Davies

[#124329] All I want to do is move a directory :( — "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>

Very frustrated. I have just spent well over an hour trying to do the simplest

16 messages 2004/12/22
[#124339] Re: All I want to do is move a directory :( — Gennady Bystritksy <gfb@...> 2004/12/22

trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:

[#124343] Re: All I want to do is move a directory :( — "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@...> 2004/12/22

On Wednesday 22 December 2004 04:25 pm, Gennady Bystritksy wrote:

[#124344] Re: All I want to do is move a directory :( — "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@...> 2004/12/23

I think the problem may be that the :force option isn't working correctly on

[#124391] Merry Christmas — Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>

20 messages 2004/12/24
[#124397] Re: Merry Christmas — "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@...> 2004/12/24

:( I get

[#124400] Re: Merry Christmas — CT <demerzel@...> 2004/12/24

> On Friday 24 December 2004 08:21 am, Christian Neukirchen wrote:

[#124433] Re: Merry Christmas — Michael Neumann <mneumann@...> 2004/12/25

CT wrote:

[#124413] ruby 1.8.2 — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>

Merry Christmas,

25 messages 2004/12/25

[#124439] HTML and CSS validation — Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@...>

What's the best method to automate the validation

17 messages 2004/12/25

[#124502] Ri bug in new 1.8.2 release — jim@...

Hi

13 messages 2004/12/26

[#124562] split on '' (and another for split -1) — "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>

Here's a generic routine I'm working on:

11 messages 2004/12/27

[#124591] Ruby Philosophy — Darren Crotchett <rubylang@...>

I'm trying to get a feel for the philosophical differences between Smalltalk,

19 messages 2004/12/28

[#124596] Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — Thursday <nospam@...>

I think Ruby's popularity is growing, but I can't help but wonder what

196 messages 2004/12/28
[#127081] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@...> 2005/01/19

Hi all, I got to this discussion really late, but I have some ideas.

[#127100] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...> 2005/01/19

Ben Giddings wrote:

[#127162] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@...> 2005/01/19

Joel VanderWerf wrote:

[#127180] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2005/01/19

Hi,

[#127191] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@...> 2005/01/19

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#127207] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — ruby talk <ruby.talk.list@...> 2005/01/19

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 03:14:28 +0900, Ben Giddings

[#127228] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@...> 2005/01/19

ruby talk (AKA James Britt) wrote:

[#127232] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...> 2005/01/19

Ben Giddings (bg-rubytalk@infofiend.com) wrote:

[#127255] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — gabriele renzi <rff_rff@...> 2005/01/19

why the lucky stiff ha scritto:

[#127315] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — "zimba.tm@..." <zimba.tm@...> 2005/01/20

I think it's cool to have community-driven websites,

[#127353] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@...> 2005/01/20

zimba.tm@gmail.com wrote:

[#127360] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2005/01/20

HI --

[#127369] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@...> 2005/01/20

David A. Black wrote:

[#127674] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2005/01/22

Hi --

[#127984] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@...> 2005/01/25

David A. Black wrote:

[#128748] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — Ian Hobson <Ian.Hobson@...> 2005/01/28

In message <41F58CEF.70807@infofiend.com>, Ben Giddings

[#127424] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...> 2005/01/20

David A. Black wrote:

[#127431] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — "Curt Hibbs" <curt@...> 2005/01/20

James Britt wrote:

[#127435] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...> 2005/01/21

Curt Hibbs wrote:

[#124652] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — gabriele renzi <rff_rff@...> 2004/12/28

Thursday ha scritto:

[#125257] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — timsuth@... (Tim Sutherland) 2005/01/06

In article <41D44401.4060104@mktec.com>, Zach Dennis wrote:

[#124672] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — Tom Copeland <tom@...> 2004/12/28

On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 11:36, gabriele renzi wrote:

[#124674] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — Premshree Pillai <premshree.pillai@...> 2004/12/28

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 05:54:01 +0900, Tom Copeland <tom@infoether.com> wrote:

[#124675] Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity — Tom Copeland <tom@...> 2004/12/28

On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 16:00, Premshree Pillai wrote:

[#124607] help on making ruby code faster — David Garamond <lists@...6.isreserved.com>

I use 128bit GUID values a lot, and on my Guid class there's the

17 messages 2004/12/28

[#124612] verifying a network connection — Thomas Metz <metz@...>

Hi,

13 messages 2004/12/28

[#124746] #send and private methods — Brian Palmer <brian@...>

I apologize if this has been discussed before and I missed it...

12 messages 2004/12/29

[#124805] Inheritance of class variables — "Eustaquio Rangel de Oliveira Jr." <eustaquiorangel@...>

Hello there.

18 messages 2004/12/30

[#124899] Ruby and Smalltalk like environment?

Hi there,

14 messages 2004/12/31

[QUIZ][SOLUTION] Crosswords (#10)

From: "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>
Date: 2004-12-05 15:25:20 UTC
List: ruby-talk #122593
Hi --

I must say that I'm impressed that someone wrote a solution in 20 minutes. My 
first pass took about an hour, but was never quite complete b/c I felt it was 
too hackish. I don't usually do these quizes, but I decided to take a good 
portion of a day out of my regular routine to try to write a nice version. It 
was fun, and I needed the break :)

I looked at the problem from the point of view of a cellular automata. The 
main point of interest is the way in which I passively build the puzzle. As a 
"cell" is queried its "type" is determined on the fly. To determine the type, 
a cell must check to see what the type of its neighbors are, thus recursing 
the process. The results of each cell query are cached, short-circuiting the 
recursion.

T.


# crossit.rb --------------------------------------------------------

module CrossWord
  
  CELL_WIDTH = 6
  CELL_HEIGHT = 4
  
  def self.build( str )
    Board.new( str ).build
  end
  
  class Board
    def initialize( layout )
      b = layout.upcase  # upcase and duplicate input layout
      lines = b.split(/\n/)  # split into array of lines of tokens
      @board = lines.collect{ |line| line.scan(/[_X]/) }
      @cnt=0  # set cell counter (for numbering)
    end
  
    def height ; @height ||= @board.length ; end
    def width ; @width ||= @board[0].length ; end
    
    # the board builds itself as it is called upon
    def board(y,x)
      return nil if @board[y][x] == 'P' # pending resolution
      # resolution complete
      return @board[y][x] if @board[y][x] != '_' and  @board[y][x] != 'X'
      return @board[y][x] = 'u' if @board[y][x] == '_'
      # on edge
      return @board[y][x] = 'e' if y==0 or x==0 or y==height-1 or x==width-1  
      if @board[y][x] == 'X'  # could be edge or solid
        @board[y][x] = 'P' # mark as pending (prevents infinite recursion)
        return @board[y][x] = 'e' if  # edge if neighbor is edge
          board(y-1,x) == 'e' or board(y,x+1) == 'e' or
          board(y+1,x) == 'e' or board(y,x-1) == 'e'
      end
      return @board[y][x] = 's'  # else solid
    end
    
    # build the puzzle
    def build
      puzzle = Puzzle.new( height, width ) # new puzzle
      # edges must be done first since they clear spaces
      @board.each_with_index{ |line,y|
        line.each_with_index{ |cell,x|
          type = board(y,x)
          puzzle.push(type,y,x,nil) if type == 'e'
        }
      }
      # buildup all the solid and fill'in pieces
      @board.each_with_index{ |line,y|
        line.each_with_index{ |cell,x|
          type = board(y,x)
          cnt = upper_left?(type,y,x) ? (@cnt += 1) : ''
          puzzle.push(type,y,x,cnt) if type != 'e'
      } }
      puzzle.to_s  # return the final product
    end
    
    # determines if a cell should be numbered
    def upper_left?(type,y,x)
      return false if type != 'u'
      return true if y == 0 and board(y+1,x) == 'u'
      return true if x == 0 and board(y,x+1) == 'u'
      if x != width-1 and board(y,x+1) == 'u'
        return true if board(y,x-1) == 'e'
        return true if board(y,x-1) == 's'
      end
      if y != height-1 and board(y+1,x) == 'u'
        return true if board(y-1,x) == 'e' 
        return true if board(y-1,x) == 's'
      end
      return false
    end
  end
  
  # Puzzle is a simple matrix
  class Puzzle
    attr_reader :puzzle
    def initialize(height, width)
      @puzzle = ['']  # build a blank to work on
      (height*(CELL_HEIGHT-1)+1).times{ |y|
        (width*(CELL_WIDTH-1)+1).times{ |x| @puzzle.last << '.' }
        @puzzle << ''
      }
    end
    def push(type,y,x,cnt)
      c = space(type,cnt)
      ny = y * CELL_HEIGHT - (y == 0 ? 0 : y) # adjust for first line
      nx = x * CELL_WIDTH - (x == 0 ? 0 : x)  # adjust for first column
      @puzzle[ny+0][nx,CELL_WIDTH] = c[0]
      @puzzle[ny+1][nx,CELL_WIDTH] = c[1]
      @puzzle[ny+2][nx,CELL_WIDTH] = c[2]
      @puzzle[ny+3][nx,CELL_WIDTH] = c[3]
    end
    def space(type,cnt)
      case type
      when "u"
        [ "######",
          "#%s#" % "#{cnt}    "[0,4],
          "#    #",
          "######" ]
      when "s"
        [ "######" ] * 4
      when "e"
        [ "      " ] * 4
      end    
    end
    def to_s ; @puzzle.join("\n") ; end
  end
end

# ruby crossit.rb <layoutfile.cit>
if $0 == __FILE__
  cwstr = nil
  if FileTest.file?( ARGV[0] )
    File.open( ARGV[0] ) { cwstr = gets(nil) }
  end
  $stdout << CrossWord.build( cwstr )
end

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