From: Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...>
Date: 2006-09-20T21:07:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Something strange in ruby or I'm a newbie?

On Sep 20, 2006, at 7:43 AM, Jan Svitok wrote:

>> it will work. By leaving out the space, you have invoked the unary
>> '+' operator. But, of course, you wanted the binary '+' operator. In
>> Ruby there are times when spaces and parentheses are critical.
>
> In other words,
>
> super +"whatever" is the same as super(+"whatever") while
> super+"whatever" or super + "whatever" is the same as super(*args)  
> + "whatever".
>
> right?

That's the way I see it. In Ruby I think its best to consider 'super'  
as a pseudo-method call and not as  a pseudo-variable as it is most  
other OO languages.

Regards, Morton