HW impossibility?: “Create a rock paper scissors program in ruby WITHOUT using conditionals”

Question

I\'m in an introductory software development class, and my homework is to create a rock paper scissors program that takes two arguments (rock, paper), etc, and returns the arg t

Answer 1

I don't know much about ruby, but I solved a problem like this long ago by using values for each one (eg, R = 1, P = 2, S=3).

Actually, I just googled after thinking about that and someone solved the problem in python using an array.