From: Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...>
Date: 2006-09-20T21:11:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Something strange in ruby or I'm a newbie?

On Sep 20, 2006, at 7:43 AM, Robert Dober 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.
>>
>> Regards, Morton
>
>
> No he found something really strange
> look at this
>
> puts "a" +"b"
>
> Do you get his point?

No. The two cases aren't comparable. "a" is an object; 'super' is a  
pseudo-method.

Regards, Morton