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authorLuke Holder <lukemh@gmail.com>2013-07-30 15:26:51 +0800
committerLuke Holder <lukemh@gmail.com>2013-07-30 15:26:51 +0800
commit99e1c31b19547fbe117a77047bb23eff0edafaea (patch)
tree7500229e3e2b051455131552c990e2814e95eb2d /ruby.html.markdown
parent8c89f3f6083c93fa7ca04148a0e7aa07ff0d4545 (diff)
Updated location, and reduced examples
also added array [] access example.
Diffstat (limited to 'ruby.html.markdown')
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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/ruby.html.markdown b/ruby.html.markdown
index 7729e0ff..9a59be90 100644
--- a/ruby.html.markdown
+++ b/ruby.html.markdown
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ filename: learnruby.rb
contributors:
- ["David Underwood", "http://theflyingdeveloper.com"]
- ["Joel Walden", "http://joelwalden.net"]
+ - ["Luke Holder", "http://twitter.com/lukeholder"]
---
```ruby
@@ -30,6 +31,11 @@ You shouldn't either
10 * 2 #=> 20
35 / 5 #=> 7
+## Arithmetic is just syntactic sugar
+## for calling a method on an object
+1.+(3) #=> 4
+10.* 5 #=> 50
+
# Special values are objects
nil # Nothing to see here
true # truth
@@ -121,6 +127,12 @@ array = [1, "hello", false] #=> => [1, "hello", false]
array[0] #=> 1
array[12] #=> nil
+# Like arithmetic, [var] access
+# is just syntactic sugar
+# for calling a method [] on an object
+array.[] 0 #=> 1
+array.[] 12 #=> nil
+
# From the end
array[-1] #=> 5
@@ -313,21 +325,4 @@ dwight.name #=> "Dwight K. Schrute"
# Call the class method
Human.say("Hi") #=> "Hi"
-
-=begin
-Arithmetic is just syntactic sugar
-for calling a method on an object:
-=end
-1.+ 1 #=> 2
-1.+(1) #=> 2
-
-8.- 1 #=> 7
-8.-(1) #=> 7
-
-10.* 2 #=> 20
-10.*(2) #=> 20
-
-35./ 5 #=> 7
-35./(5) #=> 7
-
```