From: Nikolai Weibull <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2004-10-09T22:50:13+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: Free-form-operators patch

* gabriele renzi <rff_rff@remove-yahoo.it> [Oct 09, 2004 14:05]:
> the problem I can see is: +,*,- have a ,more or less obvious semantic.

Yet "a" + "b" != "b" + "a".

> The problem is: given that -> is not a standard operator, what could
> happen if Angelina and Joe Automator implement themselve it for
> different things?

That's basically saying that since the method implies? isn't a standard
method, what could happen if Angelina and Joe Automator implement it for
different things.

> Maybe we could be happy if standard operators such as
> += or != could be overriden, and everything could become prefix.

+= is given by +, so that's no problem.
	nikolai

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