From: Timothy Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2007-04-23T08:54:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Arrow operator with dash instead of equals (->)

Andrew Green wrote:
> Hi, all,
>
> Is it possible to use -> as a method name in Ruby?
>
>   
No. A subset of Ruby's operators are implemented as methods. '>>' is one 
of those operators.  '->' isn't a Ruby operator at all.

The operators that are implemented as methods are: [], []=, **, !, ~, +, 
-, *, /, %, <<, >>,& ^, |, <=>, <=, <, >, >=, ==, ===, and =~.