From: "Иван Сташко" <johns@...>
Date: 2010-07-26T01:56:11+09:00
Subject: General delimiters

I would like to create a new general delimiter.

----------  Background

Suppose you have created a specific data type which is a combination of
various other native data types, such as strings and numbers.

Suppose that these are needed throughout your code, so you would like to
quickly express them.

I have found one way to do this,

class WhatEver
   .
   .
   .
end

def we(o)
  WhatEver.new(o)
end

so that I can type

         a = we " This 73  brqx "

in my code as a shorthand for

         a = WhatEver.new "This 73 brqx"

---------  Question

I think code would be more readable if I could type,

         a = %e "This 73 brqx"

-> I know there is metaprogramming in Ruby, and Ruby is quite flexible
-> The question is...  Is this possible?  Where is %q, for example,
defined?  It does not appear to be a method of String or Object or
Kernel
-> OK, so let's say it's something in C.  Where would I modify the C to
get this if I would want to?
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