From: "James T. Vradelis" <jvradelis@...>
Date: 2001-02-21T09:10:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11196] Re: Summary: RCR #U002 - proper new name for indexes



ts wrote:

>  You break
>    * ruby, it can't pass its tests,
>    * lib/cgi/session.rb
>    * lib/delegate.rb
>    * lib/net/ftp.rb
>    * lib/net/pop.rb
>    * lib/net/smtp.rb
>    * lib/parsedate.rb
>
>  and scripts in RAA (rwiky, tmail, erb, etc) perhaps it's faster to rewrite
>  completely RAA :-(
>
> Guy Decoux

Well, you can't make an omelette . . .

Seriously, if Ruby were to adopt that syntax and make the resulting slice
lvalues so that I could write:

    myHash = Hash.new

    myHash['one','two','three'] = [1,2,3]

then I'd volunteer to fix whatever that breaks.