From: Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com>
Date: 2009-05-14T13:16:01+09:00
Subject: Re: [bikeshed] Syntactic sugar idea

Rob Biedenharn wrote:
> The parser already refused to treat .5 as a Float literal insisting that 
> it be 0.5 so I doubt that .foo would get any more favorable treatment as 
> a special case (since .5 isn't really all that special).

Well, you never know... Matz *did* add the Symbol#to_proc conversion in
1.9 and also the foo\n.bar "fluent interface" syntax. So apparently
trivial changes *do* make their way into core... sometimes.

-Daniel