Noob Concatenation Q?

Ruby
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Can someone briefly explain why ::
puts i.to_s +" :: "+arrayoutput[i]

yaml.rb:12: undefined method +@' for " :: ":String (NoMethodError) from F:/RUBY/Source/yaml.rb:11:in times’
from F:/RUBY/Source/yaml.rb:11

but the addition of a space => puts i.to_s + " :: "+arrayoutput[i]
results in success.

some proir exp in java and cant remember requiring spaces in
concatentation. any replies welcomed!

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[email protected] wrote:

Can someone briefly explain why ::
puts i.to_s +" :: "+arrayoutput[i]

yaml.rb:12: undefined method +@' for " :: ":String (NoMethodError) from F:/RUBY/Source/yaml.rb:11:intimes’
from F:/RUBY/Source/yaml.rb:11

because parens in Ruby are optional, so it ends up:

puts i.to_s(+" :: "+arrayoutput[i])

lopex

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On May 4, 3:54 pm, [email protected] ([email protected]) wrote:

some proir exp in java and cant remember requiring spaces in
concatentation. any replies welcomed!

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I know I’m not answering your question, but
I think this is cleaner:

puts “#{ i } :: #{ array_output[i] }”

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On 5/4/07, Marcin Miel¿yñski [email protected] wrote:

puts i.to_s(+" :: "+arrayoutput[i])

Correct and then the + in
+“::”

is being interpreted by the parser as a unary + which it implements by
sending the message :+@ to the string “::”.

$ qri +@
------------------------------------------------------------- Numeric#+@
+num => num

 Unary Plus---Returns the receiver's value.

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