From: Simen Edvardsen <toalett@...>
Date: 2006-06-26T04:40:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Odd << behaviour

That's because operator overriding isn't an extension of the
semantics, but the syntax. Perhaps the documentation ought to make
that clear.

On 6/25/06, Ryan Mulligan <ryantmulligan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Simen Edvardsen wrote:
> > 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.
>
> My complaint lies more in the fact that most ruby documentation I have
> read, doesn't tell you the whole story about operator orriding. They say
> you can do it, but they neglect to tell you that your syntatic sugar
> will fail if you want your operator to have a different arity.
>
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>


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- Simen