From: "mame (Yusuke Endoh)" <mame@...>
Date: 2012-11-09T18:03:08+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:49147] [ruby-trunk - Feature #4288] Allow invoking arbitrary method names with foo."something" syntax


Issue #4288 has been updated by mame (Yusuke Endoh).

Description updated
Target version set to Next Major


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Feature #4288: Allow invoking arbitrary method names with foo."something" syntax
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/4288#change-32693

Author: headius (Charles Nutter)
Status: Assigned
Priority: Normal
Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Category: 
Target version: Next Major


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 This is one Groovy feature I tend to like.
 
 For non-standard or arbitrary method names, it would be nice to have a way to invoke them directly that doesn't require the parser to be made more complex nor require an intermediate "send" call. Groovy does this by allowing the following form:
 
 foo."asdf"()
 
 This syntax would make it easier to integrate with other languages that have different naming rules. For example, =!@+= is a valid operator in Scala. With this syntax, you could invoke it as
 
 foo."=!@+=" bar
 
 The alternative in JRuby is that we have to map such names as eq_bang_at_plus_eq, which is certainly not as elegant, or force people to use send (and force them to use :"" anyway, since :=!@+= is not a valid symbol).
 
 It's left up for debate whether string interpolation should be allowed in this syntax.
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