From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-02-24T00:52:30+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11388] Re: Time without seconds (updated/fixed)

David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> writes:

> Here's a followup question, based on playing around with this:
> Why do the two ways of doing this (which I've stashed into
> MyTime.floor) result in objects of different types?

>       mt = MyTime.at t - t.sec
>       tt = MyTime.at (tm = Time.new) - tm.sec

Because Time defines an operator '-' which returns a new Time
object. The first case is parsed as

      MyTime.at(t - t.sec)

and the second as

       MyTime.at(tm = Time.new) - tm.sec


The Pragmatic Pragma: use parantheses around method arguments!


Regards


Dave