Also, in line 17, I think it's running whichever of the two codes is longer (since the longer one is the one that didn't have a byte deleted) eval eval"[ev

Also, in line 17, I think it's running whichever of the two codes is longer (since the longer one is the one that didn't have a byte deleted) eval eval"[eval||=9,instance_eval||=9].max_by{|s|s.size}#"##" See the max_by ... size part