From: Martin Duerst <duerst@...>
Date: 2007-12-13T17:01:17+09:00
Subject: Re: redefineable not operator

At 15:16 07/12/13, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:

>I would go so far as to say the behavior in any form is wrong. I believe symbols should work like most here believe they work (as general-purpose atoms) and if necessary an alternative construct should be used for representing method/variable symbols. The details of whether one method is an alias for another in the core classes should not be exposed in user-level symbols, if those symbols are permitted for general-purpose use.

Yes. It looks to me as if the number of ruby-specific cases are
not that big, and adding these as aliases on the method level rather
than as aliases on the symbol level should be possible without too much
overhead.

Regards,   Martin.



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