How to Find Class of + in Ruby -
the design philosophy of ruby amazing. did 1 + 2 , got 3 . managed make this: 1.+(2) # => 3 . as cool was, wanted test out class method on + method. +.class => syntaxerror: (irb):14: syntax error, unexpected '.' +.class ^ and then: +().class => nomethoderror: undefined method `+@' nilclass:class while: +(2).class nomethoderror: undefined method `+@' fixnum:class why +(2).class fixnum , not integer? try again +(2.to_i).class , same error appears +(2).class . but key question: how find class of + method? 1 + 2 calling + method on 1 2 argument, same 1.+(2) . however, because of precedence, +(2).class calling (2).class first, returning instance of class , calling nonexistent +@ method, unary plus method exists numeric . can test typing (+(2)).class , returns fixnum 1 expect. source of error +().class , because () returns nil , , class of nil nilclass , doesn't have +@ method. tl;dr: because precedence ma...