From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2007-04-24T01:10:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Arrow operator with dash instead of equals (->)

Brian Candler wrote:
> 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]

:-D   very nice!

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