From: Tom Allison <tallison@...>
Date: 2006-01-17T00:13:17+09:00
Subject: Re: basic question about Fixnum & Integer

Gavin Kistner wrote:
> On Jan 16, 2006, at 7:50 AM, Tom Allison wrote:
> 
>> For some reason I can't get my installation of Ruby to do what the  
>> examples show:
>> >> 6.lcm 7
>> NoMethodError: undefined method `lcm' for 6:Fixnum
>>         from (irb):17
>>         from :0
>> >> 6.lcm(7)
>> NoMethodError: undefined method `lcm' for 6:Fixnum
>>         from (irb):18
>>         from :0
>>
>> This is too simple to get wrong?
> 
> 
> I had never seen the #lcm method before, but I see it on ruby-doc,  and 
> I see it in my local ri, and it also doesn't really exist for me.  Very 
> odd. Looks like for some reason the documentation is wrong.


Oh thank God!!!  I thought I was going clearly insane.
If I am, at least I won't be alone...