From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-10-22T14:42:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby/Tk newbie question

----- Original Message -----
From: "andrew delboy" <andrew@cyber.com.au>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 11:49 PM
Subject: Re: Ruby/Tk newbie question


> Is there a way to concatonate strings without having to use the x.to_s
method?
>
> In other words, because "+" is a string to start the expression, wouldnt
the
> plus operator actually be the '+' method within the string object?  And
thus
> wouldnt the string want to use 'string values' of the objects they are
concatonating?
>
> Can we use the shortcut of
>
> geom = "+" + x + "+" + y

No... you can concatenate strings without to_s,
of course, but not a string and a number.

Hal