From: David Morton <mortonda@...>
Date: 2007-06-02T13:20:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Is [ ] really a method ?

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On Jun 1, 2007, at 10:42 PM, Vin Raja wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Well while running down the text I read that [] (used in case  
> Arrays and
> Hashes) is actually a method called on that Array/hash object and also
> that it can be overridden.
>
> well point taken.
>
> BUT if this is just another case of operator overloading then how come
> we can call
>
>  a[1]='item'
>
> rather than calling
>
>  a[]1 ='item'
>
> (Anyways this gave me a syntax error)



try:

a.[](1)

and

a.[]=(1,'item')


I'd say it is syntactical sugar for those methods....


David Morton
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