From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Date: 2001-08-10T21:31:20+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:19487] Re: Dereference operator Hi, In message "[ruby-talk:19262] Dereference operator" on 01/08/07, Lars Christensen writes: | |I was just wondering about the possibility for overloading of what in C++ |is called the dereferencing operator. That is, so you could do something |like: This hook might useful sometimes. But I'm afraid it slows down everything in fatal level. matz.