From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2005-12-10T05:31:16+09:00
Subject: Re: new to Ruby - pls help in translating this

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On Dec 9, 2005, at 2:24 PM, JB Eriksson wrote:

> well, there is the succ method. and there's a succ! on String,  
> which could
> work in this case, I guess(?), since:
>
> irb(main):023:0> a = "9"
> => "9"
> irb(main):024:0> a.succ!
> => "10"

Well, if it was a string. The problem is fixnums are immediate  
values. ++ would therefore be an operation on the variable a, rather  
than the object that a points at.
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