Someone's 3 lines of Ruby that do the same thing as my 30 lines.

But maybe your program does it better

If yours is more readable then it's better. If the other one is idiomatic then it's better.

@kpenc mine didn't use bitwise operators lol

I once had a project that I had to do in F# and I found a Marge sorry online that took 35 lines. I had no clue how it worked because F# is impossible to read, but it did work.

This is what Ruby is like, though 😊 and it's why the language is so wonderful.

It's easily readable (generally) and succinct.

@Root I agree, I love Ruby! It seems to always surprise me.. just when I thought I've mastered it I find some awesome trick I didn't know existed

@stisch that happened to me with Rails a few weeks ago. I didn't know about `delegate`! It looks incredibly useful.

I also didn't know you could chain sugars in Ruby. Ex:

a=1 and b=2 if c==3

As you'd expect, it does both assignments if the condition is met, otherwise it does nothing. It can be a bit verbose/ugly on longer lines, but quite useful for readibility on large blocks of similar lines.

I ended up refactoring this out of my code, but it's neat that it works!