From: Phrogz <phrogz@...>
Date: 2007-09-08T03:20:08+09:00
Subject: Re: self-calling method

On Sep 7, 8:51 am, "Simon Schuster" <significa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/7/07, Erik Veenstra <erikv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > What's the advantage of toBase36, compared to the built-in
> > to_s(36)?
>
> >  p toBase36(30)
> >  p 30.to_s(36)
> whaaaa, changing the base of a string? this is totally bizarre to me.
>
> 003:0> p 10.to_s
> "10"
> nil
> 004:0> p 10.to_s(14)
> "a"
> nil

Er, you're not changing the base of a string. (That would be something
like 10.to_s.to_base(14).) You're changing the number to be
represented as a string in a specific base, via an argument to the
to_s method.