From: Gunther Diemant <g.diemant@...>
Date: 2011-04-12T21:55:26+09:00
Subject: Re: puts box.dup.enlarge(4, 5) -- unexpected result

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A method returns the last evaluated expression. In your case thats @y2 += 5
(which has the result 8).
You could do something like this:
def enlarge(x,y)
#your code

self
end

so the method returns the box itself and not the result of calculationg new
coordinates.

2011/4/12 Stefan Salewski <mail@ssalewski.de>

> Hello,
>
> I wonder why the statement "puts box.dup.enlarge(4, 5)" below gives
> output 8 instead of (0, 1, 6, 8).
>
> Thanks, Stefan Salewski
>
> stefan@AMD64X2 ~/pet $ cat btest.rb
> #!/usr/bin/ruby -w
> module Bounding
>  class Box
>    attr_accessor :x1, :y1, :x2, :y2
>    def initialize(x1, y1, x2, y2)
>      @x1, @x2 = [x1, x2].minmax
>      @y1, @y2 = [y1, y2].minmax
>    end
>    def to_s
>      "(#{@x1}, #{@y1}, #{@x2}, #{@y2})"
>    end
>    def enlarge(x, y)
>      if x < 0 then @x1 += x else @x2 += x end
>      if y < 0 then @y1 += y else @y2 += y end
>    end
>  end
> end # Bounding
>
> box = Bounding::Box.new(0, 1, 2, 3)
> puts box
>
> #this works as exspected
> nb = box.dup
> nb.enlarge(4, 5)
> puts nb
>
> #this works NOT as expected
> puts box.dup.enlarge(4, 5)
>
> stefan@AMD64X2 ~/pet $ ruby btest.rb
> (0, 1, 2, 3)
> (0, 1, 6, 8)
> 8
>
>
>
>

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