From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2007-11-02T15:45:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Create a method with name, containing illegal characters

ara.t.howard wrote:
> 
> On Oct 31, 2007, at 9:20 AM, Trans wrote:
> 
>>
>> Reminds we, I've thought this notation might be interesting in place
>> of send:
> 
>>   foo."a-b"
> 
> js does that.  i don't think it's worth it though when you can just do
> 
>   alias_method '[]', 'send'
> 
>   foo['a-b']
> 
> another alternative is tweaking string
> 
>   class String
>     def /(obj) obj.send self end
>   end
> 
>   'a-b' / foo
> 
> or similar
> 
> one more char - no hacks.

OTOH, foo."a-b" is conservative...

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