From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-06-10T15:52:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Random Number Stuff

Hi --

On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, David Stanislaus wrote:

>
> puts "SPEAK up, Sonny, I can't hear you."
> talk = gets.chomp
> while command != 'bye'
> if talk == talk.upcase
>  puts 'no not since' x = 1930 + rand(21)
> else
>  puts 'What? Sonny, speak louder! Like THIS.'
> end
> end
>
>
> Something about wrong identifier.

   puts "no not since #{1930 + rand(21)}"

You don't need to assign it to a variable (unless you're going to use
it again), and hanging an assignment off the end of a puts statement
won't work anyway -- so you might as well just embed it in the string
you're printing.


David

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