From: Mohit Sindhwani <mo_mail@...>
Date: 2008-03-01T22:19:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting number of days in a month

Jari Williamsson wrote:
>> If you look at the documentation for the Time class -  
>> http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Time.html
>> it has the following:
>>
>> LeapYearMonthDays     =     [31, 29, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 
>> 30, 31]
>> CommonYearMonthDays     =     [31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 
>> 31, 30, 31]
>>
>> Why can't I access these constants directly?  Perhaps, my Ruby 
>> knowledge is a bit lacking, but I guessed that if I could access 
>> that, I could have just used that :-S
>
> Those constants are declared private.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jari Williamsson

Thanks Jari - that clears that up.  I guess that means that if I add a 
function for 'number of days in a month' to the Time class, I could use 
these constants to serve up the number directly without any other 
calculation.

Cheers,
Mohit.
3/1/2008 | 9:20 PM.