From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2004-09-16T22:32:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Ex-Perl coders: Howz it feel to convert to Ruby?

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 22:26:24 +0900, James Edward Gray II
<james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
> On Sep 16, 2004, at 2:44 AM, Robert Klemme wrote:
> > Under which circumstances do you need to_s for numbers?  What's wrong
> > with this?
> It's usually when I'm doing something like:
> 
> puts "Total:  " + 12345

You're really better off using interpolation there:

@total = 12345
puts "Total:  #{@total}"

Now, you don't have to know whether @total is a Fixnum, String, Float,
or even a hypothetical Money class.

-austin
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