From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2007-08-22T22:59:17+09:00
Subject: Re: How +:symbol is parsed

Hi,

In message "Re: How +:symbol is parsed"
    on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:39:00 +0900, "Victor \"Zverok\" Shepelev" <vshepelev@imho.com.ua> writes:

|I wanted to be evil and add my own custom semantics to +:some_symbol
|constructs. But I've found such consctructs doesn't call Symbol#+@, while
|+(:some_symbol) does call. 

For historical reason, + before literals works as "identity" (the
function that returns the argument).  This behavior will be fixed in
the future, but not for 1.8.x, sorry.

							matz.