From: rbrooks <juniperbonsai@...>
Date: 2004-09-06T08:35:13+09:00
Subject: nuby question

Hello all,

I just started looking at Ruby, and I really like what I see. I'm just at 
the 'toying' stage at the moment, trying to learn the syntax, and adapt to a 
new way of looking at code. I've got the following snippet that gives me an 
error. I'm fairly certain that this will turn out to be a pretty dumb 
question, but if I don't ask it, I'll never learn. Why does this:

....
i=0
namelist.each do |aword|
    if aword > namelist[i+1]
         ...
    end
    i += 1
end
....

give me the following error?
sortlist.rb:19:in '>': undefined method '>' for false:FalseClass 
(NoMethodError)

        from sortlist.rb:19
        from:sortlist.rb:17:in 'each'
        from:sortlist.rb:17

Thanks for any assistance,

randy