From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2008-04-08T01:08:42+09:00
Subject: Re: syntax request

On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 04:47:03PM +0900, David A. Black wrote:
> beginning with , or +, and I have to say that this, in 1.9:
> 
>   puts object
>   .methods
> 
> has left me rather puzzled. If that works, then this should work:
> 
>   ruby -e ".methods"
> 
> but it doesn't -- which means that the whole thing introduces a new
> kind of "default object", other than self: an object to which an
> otherwise uninterpretable dot is supposed to connect.

Would you be happier if the latter snippet did work?  (I think that
means making the '.' operator a unary and binary operator like + or -).

Paul