From: Eero Saynatkari <eero.saynatkari@...>
Date: 2006-08-11T09:22:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Overriding String#[]

Lukasz Muziol wrote:
> The generic question would be "does anyone know a decent and complete 
> reference to Ruby's syntax?"
> 
> What interests me is the syntax required to define methods like [], []=, 
> getting their parameters in between the braces. It's fairly 
> inconvienient that String#[] returns a character code, rather than a 
> string of one character. Hope it'll get changed soon (to get in line 
> with POLS perhaps :)), accomodating my laziness for now I hope to 
> override it. How do I define a function named like this?

def [](key)
  # ...
end

def []=(key, value)
  # ...
end

> Thanks.


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