i was half-asleep so i wrote something which may prove useful in highly suspect emergencies

[tgies]

def totsusan( words = "LOOPY BROAD", guy = "凸(･`Д･´o)" )
  words.upcase!
  words = words.tr('A-Z0-9\'', 'Ａ-Ｚ０-９’')
  wordarray = words.split(' ')
  guy = guy.toutf8
  # chunk is some generic helper crap to split an array into n pieces with as equal a number of elements as possible
  # figure it out
  left, right = *wordarray.chunk(2)
  # note that fullwidth spaces are used here
  totsusanstring = left.join('　') + "━━━" + guy + "━━━" + right.join('　')
  return totsusanstring
end

I would like to take this time to point out that Ruby is kind of weird

THIS CODE IS HEREBY RELEASED UNDER THE CREATIVE COMMONS NONCOMMERCIAL SHno

Comments

[jhskulk.livejournal.com]

I would like to implement this as an xchat alias please tell me how.

[poliphilus.livejournal.com]

I concur about the thing about Ruby and stuff.
I do not like the idea that punctuation can be part of method names. Dumb. I also don't like the thing where functions can get called implicitly without parentheses. I like Ruby sometimes but sometimes it smells like orange spider nipples.

[tgies.livejournal.com]

I don't really mind those peculiarities of the syntax at all; I'm used to languages not being C and frankly think more languages should not be C

the whole underlying mechanics and the implementation are damn nuts though

[poliphilus.livejournal.com]

Tell me about these underlying mechanics and nuts. I don't feel like reading the interpreter's source code right now.

[tgies.livejournal.com]

well let's start with its memory requirements

the footprint of that script is about 132k

132k

[tgies.livejournal.com]

and it goes up in a semi-exponential fashion with each expression in your script

wooooop