From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-09-17T00:29:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Ex-Perl coders: Howz it feel to convert to Ruby?


"Nate Smith" <nsmith5@nist.gov> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:1095340527.2816.33.camel@circuit.eeel.nist.gov...
> > 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

I prefer to use #{} in those cases (see above, no. 3).  Gives you more
control.

Of course, your example can be written much easier:

print "a", 1

Kind regards

    robert