From: Jun Young Kim <jykim@...>
Date: 2008-12-30T09:52:40+09:00
Subject: Re: use not equal(!=) operator as a Symbol.

Hi, David.

This is a really good news for me :)

but, the only option I can take is just a version 1.8.7 ;-<

anyway, thank you~ :)

2008. 12. 29, ¿ÀÈÄ 9:16, David A. Black ÀÛ¼º:

> Hi --
>
> On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Ryan Davis wrote:
>
>>
>> On Dec 28, 2008, at 22:58 , Jun Young Kim wrote:
>>
>>> irb(main):008:0> a.send('!=', 2)
>>> NoMethodError: undefined method `!=' for 1:Fixnum
>>> 	from (irb):8:in `send'
>>> 	from (irb):8
>>> 	from :0
>>
>> there is no '!=' method, there is only '=='. you should send '=='  
>> and not/! the result:
>>
>> ! a.send('==', 2)
>
> In 1.9 != becomes a method:
>
> $ ruby19 -ve 'p 1.send("!=", 2)'
> ruby 1.9.1 (2008-12-14 revision 20738) [i386-darwin9.5.0]
> true
>
>
> David
>
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