From: woodyee Date: 2006-02-28T23:08:36+09:00 Subject: Re: Pine's book "Learning to Program" - Answer? Thanks! NOW, I think I get it. Here's my program: # Write a program which asks for a person's favorite number. Have your #program add one to the number, then suggest the result as a bigger and #better favorite number. puts "What is your favorite number? " num = gets.chomp better = num.to_i + 1 puts 'This is a better number: ' + better.to_s + '.' Gregor's solution is compact (good thing) but it's too advanced for me now. :-) What is it? Looks like a Python concocted commented out dictionary to me... :-) Thanks again!