# Ruby, <s>83</s> <s>70</s> <s>60</s> <s>55</s> 49 characters

<!-- language: lang-ruby -->

    f=->a{a.each_cons(3){|x,y,z|p y if(x-y)*(z-y)>0}}

Prints all local extremes to STDOUT.

<s>Uses the `<=>` "spaceship" operator, which I really like. (It returns 1 if the first thing is greater than the second, -1 if it's less, and 0 if equal. Therefore, if they add to -2 or 2, that means the middle is an extreme.)</s>

<s>Not anymore, as @daniero pointed out that the "obvious" way is actually shorter!</s>

Changed yet again! Now it uses the awesome algorithm found in [MT0's answer](http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/22274/3808) (+1 to him!).

Also, I like `each_cons` which selects each `n` groups of consecutive elements in an array. And trailing `if` is interesting too.

Overall, I just like how elegant it looks.

Some sample runs:

    irb(main):044:0> f[[1,2,1]]
    2
    => nil
    irb(main):045:0> f[[1,0,1,0,1]]
    0
    1
    0
    => nil
    irb(main):046:0> f[[]]
    => nil
    irb(main):047:0> f[[1,2,3,4,5,4,3,2,1]]
    5
    => nil
    irb(main):048:0> f[[1,1,1,1,1]]
    => nil
    irb(main):049:0> f[[10,0,999,-45,3,4]]
    0
    999
    -45
    => nil