From: Markus <markus@...>
Date: 2004-10-12T01:37:16+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: Free-form-operators patch

> > Actually, when you're trying to implement domain-specific languages atop
> > ruby, the operators often have a well-defined meaning; it just comes
> > from the domain rather than the larger body of 'programming languages'.

> But isn't a sub language integration feature the more appropriate approach
> in this case?

     Perhaps.  But I had no idea how to implement that in a few days.

    -- Markus

P.S. And, now that I think on it for a moment, it opens a whole new
question: where do you draw the line.  SQL would be an embedded
sub-language.  So would regular expressions.  What about Hashes? 
Strings?  I could see arguments for both...but then where do you stop,
and why?

Definitely not something I could work up a quick patch for.