From: Ben Ben <argh@...>
Date: 2009-12-26T08:21:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Making a counter for each word's occurrences in a string

Phillip Gawlowski wrote:
> On 25.12.2009 22:47, Ben Ben wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Stefano, I got the idea!  Especially when you explain the line 6,
>> it's clearer to me now.  So whatever for loop did before line 6, all of
>> those are stored in memory, then when you called line 6, it will return
>> only the value part that got added to the hash a moment ago at one go
>> right?  I hope that is what you mean.
> 
> Close. "counts", or, by extension, "return counts", hands the result of
> the method back to the caller. It includes all the results the method
> has produced (in your example, the word count).
> 
> To illustrate with a metaphor:
> A method is like a production line at a factory.
> 
> It takes raw materials (input), and produces a good (a result). This
> production line can be simple, like making nails out of metal bits (a
> word count), to a whole car (a webapp, or a desktop application).

Thanks Phillip, I got it now.  Awesome!  Ya, it is going to take me a 
while before I can truly know Ruby and programming in general.
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