From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2005-11-24T06:23:30+09:00
Subject: Re: syntax error warning: useless use of a variable in void context

On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, Tom Reilly wrote:

> class Tl
>   def initialize(a,b)
>       @a = a
>       @b = b
>   end
>      def to_s
>       "#{@a}    #{@b}"
>   end
>      def <=>(tlr)
>       if @a > tlr.@a
                     ^
                     ^
                     ^

                   you can't do this.

probably you want

   attr "a"
   ...

   tlr.a

hth.

-a
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