From: Rob Marshall <robmarshall@...>
Date: 2011-12-09T02:32:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Confusing results from string multiplication

Well, I do, at least to some degree, understand what's happening. I 
still find it a bit confusing that, in this case, '11.to_s *2' means: 
convert 11 to binary and then to a string, when: '11.to_s*2' means: 
convert 11 to a string and then multiply the string times two. To be 
consistent, they should both do the same thing.

Especially since '11.to_s(2)' seems "clearer" in that I'm saying the 
base of the string needs to be '2', whereas having '*2' do the same 
thing, but less "clearly", seems odd to me.

Not that any of this really matters. It just threw me off. :-)

Rob

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