From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2009-05-14T14:14:07+09:00
Subject: Re: [bikeshed] Syntactic sugar idea

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:16 AM, Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@dan42.com> wrote:
> 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.

But Symbol#to_proc is not a parser change. It's just using an existing
hook that has been around in Ruby 1.8

-greg