From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-10-09T06:44:18+09:00
Subject: parts of speech in Ruby

I'm curious -- exactly what class of syntactic element is `=` in Ruby,
where "class of syntactic element" is roughly analogous to "part of
speech".  If objects are nouns and methods are verbs, that means `=` is
neither a noun nor a verb.  Is it a participle?  Is it punctuation?  If
it's a participle, I'd like to know what class of syntactic element that
is in Ruby.  If it's punctuation, I'd like some explanation for how that
works conceptually -- because I think of punctuation in Ruby as being
stuff like the parentheses around a method argument.

Anyone?  Bueller?

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CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
Kent Beck: "I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java.  I
just didn't know it would be called Ruby."