From: Phillip Gawlowski <pg@...>
Date: 2010-01-04T02:00:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Few clarifications on recursion

On 03.01.2010 17:53, Panagiotis Atmatzidis wrote:

> Okay returns the last statement, but is it a number or a string?

Depends on what was thrown into it, and what was done to it in the 
process. ;)

In your case, it's a number.

A neat way to test this is capturing the output of a function in a 
variable, and do a
puts variable.class
which prints the Class of the variable (everything's an Object in Ruby, 
and thus has a class, more or less).

For example:
puts Array.new.class
puts [].class
puts "string".class
puts 1.class
puts 1.0.class # Ruby knows you are using a Float here
puts Class.class

etc. pp.