From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2007-01-05T07:46:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Pervasive Methods [was: Little Things]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Tim Pease wrote:

>
> Hmmm ... maybe I need some enlightening, but this is what I came up with ...
>
>> cat a.rb
> def if(*a) p a end
>
> if true then puts 'keyword 1' end
>
> if(true)
> puts 'keyword 2'
> end
>
>> ruby a.rb
> keyword 1
> keyword 2
>
>
> That's the beauty of keywords -- the parser is going to intercept them
> and invoke the appropriate function via the lexer.  Unless I did not
> properly define my "if" method there.
>

my mistake.  still, it'd be cool to see if we could hack into the current
ruby...  though i've no idea if that's possible attm.

-a
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