From: mike@... (Mike Stok)
Date: 2003-03-27T12:10:57+09:00
Subject: Re: syntax

In article <20030326231043.GA1684@math.umd.edu>,
Daniel Carrera  <dcarrera@math.umd.edu> wrote:
>On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 07:09:59AM +0900, Robert wrote:
>> class Fixnum
>>   def inc(val=1)
>>     self += val
>>   end
>> end
>> 
>> 1.inc
>> 
>> :-)
>
>That doesn't work, but '1.succ' does.

But surely the original poster was really trying to get something like

  i = 1
  i.succ!  # hypothetical :-)

which is a tad different...

Mike

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