From: Rail Shafigulin <rail.shafigulin@...>
Date: 2011-01-07T03:03:53+09:00
Subject: ruby method definition

i'm somewhat new to ruby, and as it seems this language is redefining
programming for me. there is a piece of code i'm trying to understand:

class SongList
  def [](key)
    if key.kind_of?(Integer)
      @songs[key]
    else
      # ...
    end
  end
end

list = SongList.new
list.append(Song.new('title1', 'artist1', 1)).
list.append(Song.new('title2', 'artist2', 2)).
list.append(Song.new('title3', 'artist3', 3)).
list.append(Song.new('title4', 'artist4', 4))

list[0]   »   Song: title1--artist1 (1)
list[2]   »   Song: title3--artist3 (3)
list[9]   »   nil

i can't understand why i'm allowed to call a [] method in this manner,
i.e. list[index], shouldn't i call it like list.[](index)

any help and explanation is appreciated

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