From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2010-11-19T05:46:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Time question

Rohit Kumar wrote in post #962299:
>> But why the dot for the method call can be ignored in this case?
>>
>> Time.now.-(86400)
>> Time.now - 86400
>>
>> the second has lost a "." before "-".
>>
>
> most operators are methods in ruby
> Time.now - 86400 is syntactic sugar for Time.now.-(86400)

which in turn can be made even more explicit:

  Time.send(:now).send(:-, 86400)

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