From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2007-06-30T16:18:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Syntax sugar: method[](...) => method(...)

Hi,

In message "Re: Syntax sugar: method[](...) => method(...)"
    on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 05:17:27 +0900, "Erwin Abbott" <erwin.abbott@gmail.com> writes:

|Lastly, has there been any mention of allowing function names like so
|in ruby 1.9:
|  def logins[] date
|    # ...
|  end

It is quite difficult since

  obj.login[date]

would be ambiguous.  We have no way to tell the method name to be
"login[]" or "login".

							matz.