Lighting Rod

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Try 103.times; see what you get. The last number is not a sum.

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----- Original Message -----
From: Bob X
Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 9:43 AM
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Subject: Re: Lighting Rod

“Kirk Haines” khaines@enigo.com wrote in message
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Eric Armstrong said:
And this is certainly inconsistent with what is stated in the Pickaxe
book:

“Iterates block int times, passing in values from zero to int - 1”

Isn’t that exactly what it is doing?

irb(main):001:0> 3.times {|d| puts d}
0 <— value starting at zero
1
2 <— to int(3)-1 which would 2
3 <— this is the return value (0,1,2 = 3)

Maybe I am mistaking what you are saying.

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He didn’t say it was =)

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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Babbitt [mailto:mbabbitt@hotmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 1:34 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: Lighting Rod

Try 103.times; see what you get. The last number is not a sum.

----- Original Message -----
From: Bob X
Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 9:43 AM
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Subject: Re: Lighting Rod

"Kirk Haines" <khaines@enigo.com> wrote in message
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> Eric Armstrong said:
> And this is certainly inconsistent with what is stated in the Pickaxe
book:
>
> "Iterates block int times, passing in values from zero to int - 1"
>
Isn't that exactly what it is doing?

irb(main):001:0> 3.times {|d| puts d}
0   <--- value starting at zero
1
2   <--- to int(3)-1 which would 2
3   <--- this is the return value (0,1,2  =  3)

Maybe I am mistaking what you are saying.

Bob

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