From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2007-01-23T15:54:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Method notation question

On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 04:56:30AM +0900, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Daniel Berger wrote:
> 
> >
> >The obvious solution is to modify irb so that it understands that
> >notation. :)
> >
> >Knowing Mauricio, he's probably already done it. ;)
> 
> modifying ri can't address the issue.  the issue is that if one types this 
> at
> the shell prompt
> 
>   ~ > ri String#split
> 
>                #^^^^^
>                #^^^^^
>                 this is a comment in the __shell__
> 
> so ri never see anything after the '#'.  that's why we have to type
> 
>   ri 'String#split'
> 
Get a better shell? <g>
ri String#split works just fine for me in zsh
> which is truly icky!
> 
> ;-)
> 
> -a
> -- 
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> simply reflect on that.
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