From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2007-04-23T20:37:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Arrow operator with dash instead of equals (->)

On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 09:47:14AM +0900, Timothy Hunter wrote:
> Now, for completeness' sake, it actually is possible to define a method 
> named '->', but the only way you could call it would be by using 'send', 
> and I'm guessing you don't want to do that. It would look like this:
> 
> o.send('->', args)

This can lead to smiley programming. I recently found myself writing

   o.send(:[]=, *args)

It's shorter than

   o[args[0..-2]] = args[-1]