From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2006-04-28T08:21:52+09:00
Subject: Re: is_number function ?

On 4/27/06, Todd S. <tgate@mypublic.net> wrote:
> Daniel Harple wrote:
>
> > 1.is_a?(Numeric) # => true
> >
> > -- Daniel
>
> Thank you.  I thought it was something to that effect.
> Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work for me.
>
>
> However I find that the above returns:
>
> 1.is_a(Numeric)
> NoMethodError: undefined method `is_a' for 1:Fixnum
>         from (irb):4
>         from :0
>
> while, 1.is_a? Numeric does indeed return true.
>
>

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