#rubystyle

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Find the building: check.  Get into the building: check. Learn and promptly forget dozens of names: check. Learn fun new things: oh so many checks.

Today I learned that writing a Fixnum class extension that spells out numbers into words is a massive pain. But also kind of fun. But mostly a pain. I also learned that the Atom text editor has not only syntax error highlighting, but style error highlighting as well. This is how I know there should always be a final newline, there shouldn't be extraneous new lines before method ends, and methods shouldn't be more than 10 lines in length. Now my code will look much less noobish, at least stylistically.  I found out that hash key searches are usually much faster than array searches and for that reason, it's ok to use a hash in which each value is some predetermined default like true. This is especially relevant when dealing with sets (i.e. lists of types, as opposed to lists of tokens). 

But perhaps most importantly, I learned that the fire escape is only for escaping fires. It is not for accessing the roof. It is not for smoking. It is not for parkour. Just boring old running for your life from an encroaching sea of flames.