From: Nate Smith <nsmith5@...>
Date: 2004-09-16T22:17:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Ex-Perl coders: Howz it feel to convert to Ruby?

> Under which circumstances do you need to_s for numbers?  What's wrong with
> this?
> 
> >> puts 1
> 1
> => nil
> >> print 1, "\n"
> 1
> => nil
> >> puts "foo #{1} bar"
> foo 1 bar
> => nil

Try

print "a" + 1

Won't work -- you have to do

print "a" + 1.to_s


Nate