From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-10-23T17:53:20+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:5778] Re: Object pipes.

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:5769] Object pipes."
    on 00/10/23, "Conrad Schneiker/Austin/Contr/IBM" <schneik@us.ibm.com> writes:

|Can the right hand side of t = w.x.y.z be regarded (in some plausible 
|sense) as something of an "object pipe", with "." roughly playing the role 
|of "|"?

If you want to.  I regard this Japanese style, from the word order of
the language. we often read

  s = ary.sort.uniq.reverse

as

  s HA ary WO sort SHITE uniq SHITE reverse SHITA MONO
  (s is an object that ary sorted, then uniqed, then reversed)

							matz.