From: Albert Wagner <alwagner@...>
Date: 2002-11-04T04:39:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Thoughts on Ruby

On Saturday 02 November 2002 11:56 pm, Austin Ziegler wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Nov 2002 10:57:29 +0900, Enric Lafont wrote:
> > Why does common operators like "=" , "and", " .." , "or" etc ...
> > can not be overloaded or redefined ?, maybe the complexity of the
> > Ruby parser comes from the fact that everything is ALMOST an
> > object or a method.
>
> I don't actually see this (that everything is "almost" an object).

I read this differently.  Certain peculiarities in the english syntax led me 
to suspect english-as-second language.  I assumed, rightly or wrongly, that 
Enric meant that: ALMOST everything is an object or a method.

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>
> > Why is not "=" a method?
>

Again, I think a misunderstanding.

                     assignment        comparator
Smalltalk          :=                           =
Ruby                =                             ==

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"I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can 
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