From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-05-16T02:09:18+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15190] Re: operator idea

Christian Szegedy <szegedy@or.uni-bonn.de> writes:

> Corrected:
> 
> Michael Neumann wrote:
> > Use str << "hello\n" in this case instead, which do not copy the object.
> 
> Of course, I know. Exactly that was my point.

So are you suggesting mapping

   x = a + b + c

into

   x = a.dup
     x += b
     b += c

or

   x = a.dup
     x << b
     x << c


Or are you suggesting that x += a should have the same semantics as
x << a?


I have to admit I'm confused.


Dave