From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-07-23T08:59:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Strings and member-operators

----- Original Message -----
From: "the Bare" <grrr@wild.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 6:05 PM
Subject: Strings and member-operators

[snip - I think David addressed this?]

> A problem I'm having is that I can't seem to figure out how to get at
> the underlying string data (like an array) in a member function.

Is it self you want? Within a method, that gives you access to the object
that the nethod belongs to.

  class String
    def printme
      puts self
    end
   end

   "abc".printme   # prints abc

> On a related note, and regardless of any suggestions on how to do what I
> want to do, how does one call a member operator in a member function?

Not sure I understand this... if an object understands an operator
(most/many
of which are really methods) then you should be able to call it from within
a method just fine.

Hal Fulton