From: Phrogz <gavin@...>
Date: 2007-06-29T04:55:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Forward Slash (/)

On Jun 28, 1:46 pm, Vincent Predoehl <vpredo...@phoenixwebgroup.com>
wrote:
> I thought I knew everything about the Ruby syntax, then I saw this:
>
>  (doc/"#sidebar").remove
>
> What does the slash do, is it an operator?  What's it called?

It's a method call, as with most other 'operators'.

irb(main):001:0> 10 / 2
=> 5
irb(main):002:0> class Fixnum; def /(*a); puts "Ha ha!"; end; end
=> nil
irb(main):003:0> 10 / 2
Ha ha!
=> nil

(Note how it doesn't even return the right value anymore!)