From: Krekna Mektek <krekna@...>
Date: 2005-10-04T00:21:56+09:00
Subject: How does this work? def[](own_arg_1, own_arg_2)

Hi,

While reading some code, which tells that one can define a new
indexing operator, some of my neurons triggered a question. When
evaluating this code:

class Song
  def[](from_time, to_time)
    result = Song.new(self.title + " [extract]",
                 self.artist
                 to_time - from_time)
    result.set_start_time(from_time)
    result
  end
end

song[0,15].play

I was thinking: when one usually defines a method, the arguments are
placed after the method name, which is '[]' here, or so I thought.
That would be song[](0,15).play

How come it works 'just' by putting the argument between the brackets?

Krekna Mektek