From: "Jan E." <lists@...>
Date: 2012-04-16T23:44:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Operator overloading of the subscript operator

Robert Klemme wrote in post #1056723:
> On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Jan E. <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
>
>> You won't find this in the Ruby API, because it's a core feature of the
>> language and not some special property of a method.
>
> Err, what?
>
> $ ri19 -T Array#[]=
> Array#[]=

The OP asked about the assignment expression being interpreted as a 
method call:

Ralph Shnelvar wrote in post #1056479:
> That is, how would I come to know that
>   x.[]=(2, 'Tuesday')
> is equivalent to
>   x[2]='Tuesday'

It wasn't about the built-in definitions of this method (which can of 
course be looked up at ruby-doc.org or wherever -- but I'm sure the OP 
already knew that).

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