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Hi all,

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[ruby-talk:01884] Re: Learning Ruby

From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-03-16 14:32:11 UTC
List: ruby-talk #1884
"Dat Nguyen" <thucdat@hotmail.com> writes:

> irb(main):003:0> word(0)
> NameError: undefined method `word' for #<Object:0x40183ed4>
> (irb):3:in `irb_binding'
> irb(main):004:0>

That should be word[0]. Square brackets are for indexing, and round
parentheses (in this context) indicate the parameter list for a method 
call.

Regards


Dave

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