From: "trans.  (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>
Date: 2004-10-09T06:24:04+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: Free-form-operators patch

On Friday 08 October 2004 03:43 pm, Hal Fulton wrote:
| It might even be a great thing in Ruby 1.9 -- but I (personally) would not
| want to see it permanently in Ruby.

I think there is a simple matter perspective here. It is okay for methods to 
be of alphanumeric but not other characters (expect _ ? ! and =). "Operator" 
methods on the other hand are not alphanumeric. That's great. But why can a 
method be a an arbitrary length string, but an operator can not? It doesn't 
seem fair. It's not fair to be so limited on operators.

I like this patch. I hope it eventually works well enough to make it into 
Ruby.

An Independent Libertarian,
T.