From: benny <listen@...>
Date: 2006-03-23T05:48:51+09:00
Subject: Re: why doesn't "to_s" DWIM?

benny wrote:

> 
> a = ["2","3", "4"]
> a.each { |i| i.replace("#{i} times") }
> p a
> 
> in fact variables only point to the objects. so you might use them to
> modify the object they are currently pointing to. if you got strings, you
> may modify them (instead of creating new ones). but unfortunately that
> won't
> work for numbers, since they are no real objects, but - how  do we call
> them? - first level objects?
so this would work also:

aoa = [[1,2,3],[4,5,6]]

aoa.each do |arr|
  arr.each_index do |i|
    arr[i] = arr[i].to_s
  end
end

p aoa

> 
> benny
> 
>