From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-11-26T16:19:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Things That Newcomers to Ruby Should Know (11/24/02)

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From: "Jason Persampieri" <helgaorg@yahoo.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 10:15 PM
Subject: Re: Things That Newcomers to Ruby Should Know (11/24/02)



> I mean, C doesn't allow 3++ either (well, it may ALLOW
> it, but it doesn't mean anything).  I think that
> argument is pretty bogus.  

It's not bogus at all. It's just a simpler
way of illustrating the fact that Ruby 
operators operate on objects, not variables.

This is the same argument, using a variable
instead of a constant.

  x = 3
  y = 3
  x++   
  puts y    #  4????

Hal