From: Ibraheem Umaru-Mohammed <umarumohammed@...>
Date: 2002-12-02T22:03:30+09:00
Subject: Re: [FAQ] [Revised again] What are the non-alphanumerical symbols in Ruby code?

* Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> [2002-12-02 10:04]:
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> +  -  *  /  %  **
> 
>     1.  Binary arithmetic operators representing addition (3 + 2),
>         subtraction (3 - 2), multiplication (3 * 2), division (3 /
>         2), modulus (integer division remainder; 3 % 2 is 1), and
>           exponentiation (3 ** 2 is 9).  "**" has the highest
>           precedence, followed by "*", "/", and "%", and finally "+"
>           and "-".  All of these operators are methods.
> 
>     2.  Unary plus and minus (+3, -2).  Unary plus and minus have
>         higher precedence than "*", "%", and "/", but lower precedence
>         than "**".  These are methods (+@ and -@, respectively).
> 
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You may also want to add the string formatting use of '%' somewhere.

ibraheem@ignoramus:$ ruby -e 'puts "%s maps to %d" % ["one",1]'
one maps to 1
ibraheem@ignoramus:$
	
Kindest regards,

			--ibz.
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