From: Nikolai Weibull <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2004-10-10T11:31:05+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: Free-form-operators patch

* gabriele renzi <rff_rff@remove-yahoo.it> [Oct 10, 2004 03:00]:
> >+= is given by +, so that's no problem.

> actually, I'd like to override += (just think of Array#+= done via in
> place addition or with sum and reassign), just to say :)

Well, there you go.  Your whole reasoning just went down the drain.  If
this would be allowed, how would anyone keep track of how += for
arrays differs from += for, say, integers.  It's more confusing to alter
the meaning of some "well understood" operator than to add new ones with
new semantics,
	nikolai

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