From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-07-03T22:08:44+09:00
Subject: Re: LSRC Name Picker

On Jul 3, 2007, at 8:00 AM, Ari Brown wrote:

>
> On Jul 3, 2007, at 8:55 AM, James Edward Gray II wrote:
> <snip>
>>
>> It's Ruby's way of telling you that your code doesn't make sense.
>>
>> Basically, you are defining a block for an instance variable here,  
>> but only methods can take blocks in Ruby.  I assume you meant to  
>> call some iterator and forgot to include the method name.
> I was trying this:
> 	@names = open('.names.txt', 'w+')
> in initialize, and then write to that file later on. Is there a  
> better way to do this?

This is fine and in that case you don't need the block at all.  You  
can just write to the file with:

   @names.puts "�"

James Edward Gray II