From: Rahul Kumar <sentinel1879@...>
Date: 2010-10-02T13:15:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Can't convert Float into String

Anthony Ob wrote:

> puts name = 'Prune'

> puts name[4]
> # We can add anything!
> name[5] = 4.33


you have reassigned name to a string. Now you are inputting a float into 
it.
That line is an error.

See this (from irb):

ruby-1.9.2-head > name = "avcddf"
 => "avcddf"
ruby-1.9.2-head > name[4]
 => "d"
ruby-1.9.2-head > name[4]=0.3
TypeError: can't convert Float into String
        from (irb):67:in `[]='
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