From: gabriele renzi <rff_rff@...>
Date: 2004-10-11T07:54:39+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: Free-form-operators patch

Markus ha scritto:

>      I agree with almost all of your post, except:
> 
> On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 04:14, gabriele renzi wrote:
> 
>>What I am afraid of is the interaction beetween different users's 
>>language extensions, in a space where name collision is more easy than 
>>in the method's one.
> 
> 
>      It's really no different than methods; the interpretation of the
> operator is up to the receiver, exactly the same as with methods. 
> Operators are _already_ handled in the same way as methods.

Sure, what I mean is: it is possible that people could implement 
Object#-> for,say, type conversion, and Integer#-> to build a range. It 
is harder to have an overlap of #converto_to and #upto. Short names (and 
I think operators should be short :) can easily cause problems, just 
think of the (now deprecated) Object#id.