From: Rohit Kumar <rohitt@...>
Date: 2010-11-18T17:03:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Time question

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> But why the dot for the method call can be ignored in this case?
>=20
> Time.now.-(86400)
> Time.now - 86400
>=20
> the second has lost a "." before "-".
>=20
=20
most operators are methods in ruby
Time.now - 86400 is syntactic sugar for Time.now.-(86400)

scroll down and look for "Operator Methods" in the language documentation
http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/language.html
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