Re: puts box.dup.enlarge(4, 5) -- unexpected result

From	Stefan Salewski <mail@ssalewski.de>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.ruby
Subject	Re: puts box.dup.enlarge(4, 5) -- unexpected result
Date	2011-04-12 08:12 -0500
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On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 21:55 +0900, Gunther Diemant wrote:
> A method returns the last evaluated expression. In your case thats @y2 += 5
> (which has the result 8).
> You could do something like this:
> def enlarge(x,y)
> #your code
> 
> self
> end
> 
> so the method returns the box itself and not the result of calculationg new
> coordinates.
> 

Thanks!

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puts box.dup.enlarge(4, 5)  -- unexpected result Stefan Salewski <mail@ssalewski.de> - 2011-04-12 07:32 -0500
  Re: puts box.dup.enlarge(4, 5) -- unexpected result Gunther Diemant <g.diemant@gmx.net> - 2011-04-12 07:55 -0500
    Re: puts box.dup.enlarge(4, 5) -- unexpected result Stefan Salewski <mail@ssalewski.de> - 2011-04-12 08:12 -0500

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