From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2006-09-04T01:47:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Already stalled in Pick Axe book - could use some help

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On 9/3/06, James Britt <james.britt@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Jeff Rohrer wrote:
> > Hi, total noob here. I'm only on page 25 of the Pick Axe book and I'm a
> > little stuck:
> >
> > I'm running Ruby version 1.8.4 on Windows XP Home Edition. I'm entering
> > code via irb.
> >
> > Here's the problem: I enter the following code from the book:
> >
> > class Song
> >   def initialize(name, artist, duration)
> >     @name     =3D name
> >     @artist   =3D artist
> >     @duration =3D duration
> >   end
> >
> >   def to_s
> >     "Song: #@name--#@artist (#@duration)"
> >   end
> > end
> >
>
> I just tried this on WinXP, ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-mswin32]
>
> demo.rb has the code you provided.
>
> d:\tmp>irb
> irb(main):001:0> load 'demo.rb'
> =3D> true
> irb(main):002:0> song =3D Song.new("Bicylops", "Fleck", 260)
> =3D> #<Song:0x2b1a370 @name=3D"Bicylops", @duration=3D260, @artist=3D"Fle=
ck">
> irb(main):003:0> song.to_s
> =3D> "Song: Bicylops--Fleck (260)"
> irb(main):004:0>
>
> I think you may have something different in your actual source code.


Exactly
maybe the lines

end # of initialize
def to_s

are missing

HTH
Robert

> --
> James Britt
>
> "Simplicity of the language  is not what matters, but
> simplicity of use."
>   - Richard A. O'Keefe in squeak-dev mailing list
>
>


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