From: corey konrad <0011@...>
Date: 2006-05-16T09:46:12+09:00
Subject: Re: learn to program

cant because live ruby irb closes completly when i enter that code. It 
doesnt work.



jake m wrote:
> corey konrad wrote:
>> oh ok he is just talking about variable scope it was kind of hard to 
>> tell from his example for some resaon, i dont know i think i am going to 
>> skip this learn to program book, this chris guy really doesnt know how 
>> to explain things to a person with a beginner mind set. i also am having 
>> problems running his code examples i really dont  understand how the 
>> code below works but when i copy and paste it into the live ruby program 
>> all it does is close the live ruby program and shuts it down.
>> 
>> def ask question
>> good_answer = false
>> while (not good_answer)
>> puts question
>> reply = gets.chomp.downcase
>> if (reply == ' yes' or reply == ' no' )
>> good_answer = true
>> if reply == ' yes'
>> answer = true
>> else
>> answer = false
>> end
>> else
>> puts ' Please answer "yes" or "no".'
>> end
>> end
>> answer # This is what we return (true or false).
>> end
> 
> Corey, that is the definition of a method. to get a result add something 
> like
>                 response = ask 'are you wearing a blue shirt'
>                 puts response


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