From: Brian Wisti <brianwisti@...>
Date: 2004-09-17T06:40:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Ex-Perl coders: Howz it feel to convert to Ruby?


--- Nate Smith <nsmith5@nist.gov> wrote:

> Try
> 
> print "a" + 1
> 
> Won't work -- you have to do
> 
> print "a" + 1.to_s
> 
> 
> Nate

That "+" means you're building a new string from two Strings. Since the
second operand is not a String, the conversion has to be explicit.

Now, for simple printing, it just occurred to me to test what happens
when you hand a printf-style expression to print, as I might do in the
same situation with Python:

irb > print "a%d" % 1
a1 => nil

So, that's One Way To Do It.

-- Brian Wisti
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