From: Phrogz <gavin@...>
Date: 2007-06-26T03:05:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Q: how to start a module name with a lower case character?

Robert Klemme wrote:
> On 25.06.2007 16:53, Mark Watson wrote:
[snip]
> > It would also be good to be able to alias "::" to ":" so that I could
> > use a syntax like:
> >
> > rdfs:Label
>
> Hm, no idea whether there is a way although Ruby seems to accept the syntax:
>
> $ ruby -ce 'rdfs:Label'
> Syntax OK

FWIW, this is because Ruby interprets that as a method call with a
symbol argument, i.e. rdfs( :Label )

irb(main):002:0> rdfs:Label
NoMethodError: undefined method `rdfs' for main:Object
        from (irb):2
irb(main):003:0> def rdfs( *args ) p args end
=> nil
irb(main):004:0> rdfs:Label
[:Label]

So, with predefined or dynamic prefixes, you could use that syntax as
a method that returns a specially-namespaced constant.