From: mike leonard <mikeleonard@...>
Date: 2008-03-09T22:44:55+09:00
Subject: Re: A question on singleton methods

On Mar 9, 4:29 am, Sebastian Hungerecker <sep...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
> mike leonard wrote:
> >     def a_hash.fetch(:a).to_s
> >         "ALPHA"
> >     end
>
> This doesn't work because ruby thinks you want to define a_hash.fetch and is
> then confused by the symbol in the parameter list. This however will work:
>
> def (a_hash.fetch(:a)).to_s
>   "ALPHA"
> end
>
> HTH,
> Sebastian
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That got it. Thanks to everyone who chimed in to clear that up for me.