From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2007-01-05T07:15:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Pervasive Methods [was: Little Things]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Tim Pease wrote:

> On 1/4/07, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
>> On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Trans wrote:
>> 
>> > "Pervasives.send obj, message" IMO is too long.
>> 
>>    P = Pervasives
>> 
>>    P.send obj, message
>> 
>> ??
>> 
>
> Why not get rid of Pervasives / P altogether and simply have some new
> keywords in the parser?

shorter would be better alright.

>
> send obj message
> id obj
>

it __has__ to hang of another object otherwise

   class C
     def foo
       send :inspect # keyword or method?
     end
   end

still.  shorter is good.  maybe something like

   __( obj ).send message

where '__' returns a proxy for Pervasives?

-a
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