From: Phil Mitchell <phil.$DELETEmitchell@...>
Date: 2001-09-26T22:07:16+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21718] Re: Help understanding self ...

That helps. It's a parser issue, and the syntax of the language is overloaded.

It's not a complaint, btw. I'm really enjoying learning ruby, and I was just curious...

Thanks!

On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 08:18:40 +0900, David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> wrote:

[snip]
> 
> It comes down to finding a way for "[]" to mean different things.
> Where there might be ambiguity, some decision has to be made.  Another
> example is:
> 
>   puts class
> 
> This causes an error, because even though there's a method
> Object#class, the bare "class" is parsed as the keyword "class",
> and then having nothing come after it makes no sense.  It's not
> a call to method #class that behaves strangely; it's not a method
> call at all.
> 
> 
> David
> 
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