From: Martin Weber <Ephaeton@...>
Date: 2003-01-17T08:26:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby advocacy in sigs

On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 08:08:46AM +0900, Tim Bates wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 05:32 am, Travis Whitton wrote:
> > here are some examples of Ruby's object oriented nature
> > 9.times {|num| puts num} # 0123456789
> 
> That one's wrong. Anyone who knew Ruby and actually read it would spot it, but 
> I though I'd point it out incase anyone blindly copied-and-pasted.
> 
> 9.times {|num| puts num} # 999999999
> 0.upto(9) {|num| puts num} # 0123456789


Anyone who knews ruby would spot it, uh huh.

$ irb --simple-prompt
>> 9.times {|n| print n}
012345678=> 9
>> 9.times {|n| puts n}
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
=> 9
>> ^D

Pity I don't know ruby. Good irb does :-)

-Martin