From: Guillaume Marcais <guslist@...>
Date: 2006-07-01T10:01:56+09:00
Subject: Re: << for Hash?

Le 29 juin 06, � 19:04, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov a �crit :

> On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
>
>> ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
>> ...
>>> incidentally, '<<' is not a pure append operator in ruby
>>>
>>>   class << self
>>>   end
>>>
>>>   42 << 2
>>>
>>>   string = <<hdoc
>>>     foobar
>>>   hdoc
>>
>> But those aren't other uses of the << operator. Those are "just" 
>> syntax.
>
> hmmm.  you are right in two of three.  but Fixnum#<< is definitely a 
> method.
> in any case ruby has precedent for '<<' meaning other things besides 
> only
> 'append'.

Can't we see shifting an Integer the same as appending zeroes on one 
end of it? Just to play the devil's advocate...

Guillaume.

>
> cheers.
>
> -a
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