From: ts Date: 2001-08-02T00:13:47+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:18966] Re: Using "@" as a method name? >>>>> "D" == Dave Thomas writes: D> (where c is any character) invoke Kernel.build_, so ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ make it Kernel.build_special(c, str) D> %T{wombat} D> would call Kernel.build_T(), passing in "wombat". pigeon% ruby -rii -e 'dump; %T{abc}' eval_tree BLOCK NEWLINE <-e:1> VCALL dump NEWLINE <-e:1> FCALL build_special ARRAY STR "T" STR "abc" -e:1: undefined method `build_special' for # (NameError) pigeon% :-) Guy Decoux