Re: Ruby documentation typo

Behrang Saeedzadeh wrote:

> Actually I'm new to Ruby, and I've not passed that page yet so...

You can try the examples in the book in the interactive ruby shell, irb.
Try running it as

% irb

at your shell prompt and then just paste the examples and see the
results,
nikolai

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