From: Sun <as@...>
Date: 2008-01-21T23:55:00+09:00
Subject: Re: what does 'def [](var1)' means and how to use?


>
> Out of curiosity... operator overloading and it's ilk are (by many)
> considered to be bad things because it can make it hard to figure out
> what's happening in the code, especially for dynamic languages where
> they can change on the fly. The reason for this thought is, I believe,
> because it can be difficult to understand what code is doing if the
> definitions of "standard" operations are or where they come from.
>
> Along those lines, is there a current way to ask Ruby where the
> definition comes from for a given operator or, more generally, method?
> Ie, Ruby needs to do a lookup to find out what definition to use. Is
> there a way to ask it to do that lookup and report the results?
>
> Thanks,
> Rob Seeger

Have no idea of your question. I am just working with Ruby on rails 
temorarily (few weeks), on a project developed by another guy who is a big 
Ruby fan. I just figured out that Ruby maybe too flexible for me, as Perl, 
and I will go back to java/python/c++ genre soon after this work done. But 
ROR is truely amazing when dealing with Web apps, quite a fun of using it.