From: CompGeek78 <keven.denen@...>
Date: 2008-08-01T03:19:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Question on do block

On Jul 31, 12:14 pm, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 2:09 PM, CompGeek78 <keven.de...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The problem I ran into is in changing the > to a =.
>
> > def mtdarry
> >  10.times do |num|
> >    square = num * num
> >    return num, square if num = 7
> >  end
> > end
>
> You want an equality check, not assignment.
>
> >> a = 1
> => 1
> >> a == 1
> => true
> >> a == 2
>
> => false
>
> num = 7 is always true, because all values except false and nil are
> true in the boolean sense in Ruby.
> num == 7 is only true when num is 7.
>
> -greg

Oh gads I'm an idiot...thanks.