From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-10-30T20:05:51+09:00
Subject: Re: feature idea: custom literals

Hi,

In message "feature idea: custom literals"
    on 02/10/30, loats205 <loats205@aol.com> writes:

|wouldn't it be cool if you could define custom literal representations for your
|classes?

You may feel it's cool to have "reader macro" in Ruby, but I won't
buy it.  It gives us "too much flexibility", like macros in Lisp.

Some kind of "restricted reader macro" may be possible.  For example

  %L<!@$whatever$@!>

I'm still not sure whether it's the way to go.

							matz.