From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-10-03T11:49:51+09:00
Subject: Re: (4+3).reverse # => 1?

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Hi --

On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, x1 wrote:

> Does anything like this exist?
>
> a method of inversing the given operation..
>
> (4=B2).revese # yields 2, the square of 4
> (8/4).reverse # yields 32, the product of 8*4

I don't think it could, and I know that it shouldn't :-)  The thing
is, whatever follows the dot is being sent to the object that's
returned by the expression (8/4), and not to the expression itself.
So you're asking to reverse 2.


David

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