From: Julien Gaugaz <gaugaz@...3s.de>
Date: 2006-12-22T01:45:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Method named ***(other)

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> Julien Gaugaz wrote:
>> Hi!
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>> It's several hours now that i'm trying to find out what's special with
>> *** for a method name, without success :(
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> That should be your clue. There _isn't_ anything special about "***",
> whereas the infix operators that exist in Ruby that you can redefine
> require special treatment by the interpreter. You can't expand the set
> of operators, and '***' isn't among them.
Ah, ok, thanks a lot. I understood why i could use '***' as an infix 
operator. But still, there shouldn't be any difference between a call 
like m.*** n  and m.triple_star n... But it seems there is since 
m.triple_star works and m.*** don't.

I don't get it.

Julien
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