From: Mike Agres <mike.agres@...>
Date: 2006-10-09T11:46:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Learn to Program, by Chris Pine

I'm having some issues modifying the Civ continent example from ch. 10 
to account for coordinates that are outside the array.  I added the 
following line:

if ((y <= 10 && y > 0) && (x <= 10 && x > 0))

before...

  # So, first we count this tile...
  size = 1
  world[y][x] = 'counted land'


    # ...then we count all of the
    # neighboring eigth tiles (and,
    # of course, their neighbors via recursion)
    size = size + continent_size(world, x-1, y-1) #4,4
    size = size + continent_size(world, x  , y-1) #5,4
    size = size + continent_size(world, x+1, y-1) #6,4
    size = size + continent_size(world, x-1, y  ) #4,5
    size = size + continent_size(world, x+1, y  ) #6,5
    size = size + continent_size(world, x-1, y+1) #4,6
    size = size + continent_size(world, x  , y+1) #5,6
    size = size + continent_size(world, x+1, y+1) #6,6
    size
end

As a result, I get the following error:

TypeError: nil can't be coerced into Fixnum

method +	in civilization.rb at line 35
method continent_size	in civilization.rb at line 35
method continent_size	in civilization.rb at line 35
method continent_size	in civilization.rb at line 36
method continent_size	in civilization.rb at line 35
method continent_size	in civilization.rb at line 40
method continent_size	in civilization.rb at line 39
method continent_size	in civilization.rb at line 41
method continent_size	in civilization.rb at line 39
method continent_size	in civilization.rb at line 41
method continent_size	in civilization.rb at line 39
method continent_size	in civilization.rb at line 36
method continent_size	in civilization.rb at line 35
at top level	in civilization.rb at line 48

This error appears regardless of whether the arguments I pass are in 5,5 
(as in the example Chris Pine wrote out) or something like 10,10 (which 
is on the edge of the 'continent').

Is that the right conditional statement?  Could it be in the wrong place 
in the method?

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