From: Simen Edvardsen <toalett@...>
Date: 2006-06-26T04:19:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Odd << behaviour

It's syntactic sugar. You can't expect it to work with arbitrary
arities. It's a bit like complaining that you can't to `1 + 2, 3' in
Ruby. << makes sense with one argument. You know that it really just
masks an method call. If you are so comfortable with Ruby that you
understand what is a method call and what's not, having to use the
method call syntax shouldn't be that difficult.

Remember, Ruby has lots of more syntax than, say, Smalltalk, but at
its core the semantics are, if not as simple, close.

On 6/25/06, Ryan Mulligan <ryantmulligan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mark Van Holstyn wrote:
> > being able to do...
> >
> > a << :arg1, :arg2
> >
> > is just syntax sugar for doing...
> >
> > a.<<( :arg1, :arg2 )
> >
> > Using the first version however only works with one argument.
> >
> > mark
>
> Right.
> The issue I have is more with the implications of that and how operator
> overriding works.
>
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>
>


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- Simen