From: Rob Biedenharn <Rob@...>
Date: 2010-03-23T21:44:06+09:00
Subject: Re: less than sign for inheritance in classes


On Mar 23, 2010, at 7:46 AM, Smart RoR wrote:

> Gary Wright wrote:
>> On Mar 23, 2010, at 12:05 AM, Smart RoR wrote:
>>> Every operator is a method in ruby....
>>>
>>> like 1 - 1 = 0 here - is a method.
>>>
>>> That is my understanding....
>>
>> Let me try again.  The '<' in a class definition
>> is not an operator and so doesn't have an
>> associated method.  It looks like an operator
>> but is not parsed or interpreted as an operator
>> when used in a class definition.
>>
>> Gary Wright
>
>
> Thanks. But in that case where is the < handled to identify
> inheritance....
> That is the core handling as to where is this implemented in ruby  
> core.
>
> -- 
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>


That would be deep inside parse.y -- the grammar file for the parser.  
Look for the superclass non-terminal (about 4100 lines or so into the  
file).

-Rob

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