From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2011-04-28T18:59:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Is everything object ?

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:48 AM, amir e. <aef1370@gmail.com> wrote:
> A very important principle in Ruby is that every thing is object.
> I read somewhere that there is no primitive operation in Ruby in
> traditional form and every operation is class.

That wording does not really make sense.  You probably mean that every
operator is a method, do you?

> Now if every thing is object , then why   + , - , * , ^ , ^^   isn't
> class Although they are primitive operation ?
>
> ps : If you test these codes , error happen : +.class  -.class   *.class

I am not 100% sure what you are up to but in case you wonder whether
"+" is not something tangible (i.e. an object) this might explain:
operators (+, - etc.) are mainly syntactic sugar for method calls and
you can actually invoke them like methods:

irb(main):001:0> 1 + 2
=> 3
irb(main):002:0> 1.+(2)
=> 3
irb(main):003:0> 1.send("+", 2)
=> 3
irb(main):004:0> 1.send(:+, 2)
=> 3
irb(main):005:0> 1.method "+"
=> #<Method: Fixnum#+>

Kind regards

robert

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