From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-08-01T23:32:03+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18962] Re: Using "@" as a method name?

Laurent Julliard <Laurent.Julliard@xrce.xerox.com> writes:

> myvar = @"A sample string"

...

> PS: For those of you who know Objective C and the GNUstep environment
> you probably see what I want to achieve. In this environment saying
> @"string" has the same effect as saying NSString.new("string") in Ruby
> and I'd like to replicate this behavior in Ruby

On a related note: it would be nice to be able to have the ability to
extend the repertoire of % commands. How about having

  %c{...}

(where c is any character) invoke Kernel.build_<c>, so

   %T{wombat}

would call Kernel.build_T(), passing in "wombat".

Is this a viable RCR?


Dave