From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-11-26T13:14:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Things That Newcomers to Ruby Should Know (11/24/02)

From: <dblack@candle.superlink.net>


>
> But there's only one of each number.  If you were allowed to do
>
>   3.succ!
>
> or
>
>   3 += 1
>
> then when you did this:
>
>   puts 3 * 5
>
> the output would be "20", because you would have incremented the
> actual object 3.
>
> David

Reminds me of the joke: 2^3 = 27, for sufficiently large values of 2.

And my favourite, which will only be understood by those who write it down in
mathematical notation: the limit as omega approaches infinity of three is
eight.

OK, OK, here's an ASCII version.

  lim
             3   =   8
  w -> oo

Gavin