Этот парень, конечно, не схватил Руби сам. Интересно, почему он решил использовать этот язык?
Вот аннотированное объяснение:
# Yes, it reads all lines of a file in words (an array)
words = File.open("lengths.txt") {|f| f.read }.split
values = Array.new(0)
# Yes, to_i convert string into integer
words.each { |value| values << value.to_i }
values.sort!
values.uniq!
# diffs and s seem unused
diffs = Array.new(0)
sum = 0
s = 0
# The immediate line below can be read as `for(int index = 0; index < values.length; index++)`
values.each_index { |index|
# index is integer, to_i is unnecessary
if index.to_i < values.length-1 then
# The `sum` variable is used here
# Following can be rewritten as sum += values[i-1] - values[i]
sum += values.at(index.to_i + 1) - values.at(index.to_i)
end
}
puts "delta has the value of\n"
# Yes, this will eventually print the minimal of the original values divided by 2
puts values.at(0) / 2
Чтобы помочь вам лучше понять, как выглядит "настоящий" (идиоматический) Ruby, я написал то, что вы хотели, с некоторыми аннотациями
values = open("lengths.txt") do |f|
# Read it like this:
#
# Take the list of all lines in a file,
# apply a function to each line
# The function is stripping the line and turning it
# into an integer
# (This means the resultant list is a list of integers)
#
# And then sort it and unique the resultant list
#
# The eventual resultant list is assigned to `values`
# by being the return value of this "block"
f.lines.map { |l| l.strip.to_i }.sort.uniq
end
# Assign `diffs` to an empty array (instead of using Array.new())
diffs = []
values.each_index do |i|
# Syntactic sugar for `if`
# It applies the 1st part if the 2nd part is true
diffs << (values[i+1] - values[i]) if i < values.length - 1
end
# You can almost read it like this:
#
# Take the list `diffs`, put all the elements in a sentence, like this
# 10 20 30 40 50
#
# We want to inject the function `plus` in between every element,
# so it becomes
# 10 + 20 + 30 + 40 + 50
#
# The colon `:+` is used to refer to the function `plus` as a symbol
#
# Take the result of the above summation, divided by length,
# which gives us average
delta = diffs.inject(:+) / diffs.length
# `delta` should now contains the "average of differences" between
# the original `values`
# String formatting using the % operator
# No \n needed since `puts` already add one for us
puts "delta has the value of %d" % delta
Это никоим образом не продвигает истинную силу Ruby, но вы понимаете, почему Rubyists так увлекаются выразительностью и прочим: P