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Start your free trialNick Vitsinsky
7,246 PointsWhy do we remove " answer = gets.chomp" if we have to "return the answer passed in"?
I don't get why?
def parse_answer(answer, kind="string")
answer = answer.to_i if kind == "number"
return answer
end
1 Answer
Steve Hunter
57,712 PointsHi Nick,
In this case, the answer
is passed into the method. The value held by answer
may have been obtained by using gets
outside of this bit of code but, here, we don't need to ask the user for input as answer
already has a value.
Does that make sense?
Steve.