[ruby-core:84194] [Ruby trunk Feature#4288][Closed] Allow invoking arbitrary method names with foo."something" syntax

Issue #4288 has been updated by matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto).

Status changed from Assigned to Closed

I thought I have closed this issue long ago.  Use `send`.

Matz.


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Feature #4288: Allow invoking arbitrary method names with foo."something" syntax
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/4288#change-68308

* Author: headius (Charles Nutter)
* Status: Closed
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
* 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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