I was recently reminded of the old FizzBuzz programming test and thought I would share a version of it for ChaiScript. ChaiScript has a possibly little used feature that allows you to execute a ‘guard’ or test before the function is executed, to see if it matches certain criteria. We can take advantage of this to generate rather readable version of FizzBuzz.
def Fizz(int i) : i % 3 == 0 { "Fizz" }
def Fizz(int i) { "" }
def Buzz(int i) : i % 5 == 0 { "Buzz" }
def Buzz(int i) { "" }
def FizzBuzz(int i)
{
i.to_string() + " " + Fizz(i) + Buzz(i)
}
for (auto i=1; i <= 100; ++i)
{
print(FizzBuzz(i));
}
Is it the shortest version ever? No. But it is interesting in that it doesn’t have a single explicit branch statement.
