From: "r . h a r l o s" <quadzero@...>
Date: 2002-01-31T12:25:07+09:00
Subject: Re: integer method question

On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 22:08:15 -0500, Jim Menard wrote:

> "r . h a r l o s" <quadzero@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> 
>> In irb, if I type:
>>    2.upto(5) { |n| print n, "-" | }
>> 
>> I expect to see:
>>    2-3-4-5-
>> 
>> but instead I see:
>>    2-3-4-5-2
>> 
>> Why does the initial value get tacked onto the end?  I'm running ruby
>> 1.6.6 on Red Hat 7.2, irb version 0.7.4.
> 
> You see the last "2" because after irb executes the code it prints the
> value of the resulting object, in this case "2".
> 
> On the command line, type "ruby -e '2.upto(5) { |n| print n, "-" | }"
> and you will not see the final "2".

Right you are, Jim.  Thanks for the explanation!

Richard
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