From: Caleb Clausen <vikkous@...>
Date: 2009-12-24T13:37:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Strange behavior of unary +@ for Fixnum?

On 12/23/09, Ryan Davis <ryand@zenspider.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 23, 2009, at 01:37 , Alexandre Mutel wrote:
>> For example the unary +@ operator on symbols is not really working in
>> 1.8.x.
>
> How is it not working on symbols?
>
> class Symbol
>  def +@
>    puts "YES #{self}"
>  end
>
>  def -@
>    puts "NO #{self}"
>  end
> end
>
> -:x          # => NO x
> +:x          # => :x

Ummmmm..... does that second line really make sense to you? Is there
any reason why the + in +:sym should be ignored _in_the_lexer_, with
not even a call to +@?