From: Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak@...>
Date: 2003-06-12T05:32:36+09:00
Subject: Re: multiple blocks or proc arguments to method

Dnia nie 8. czerwca 2003 17:56, Shashank Date napisa�:

> This syntax always bothers me. I think of [ ] as (array) index and
> in most of the situations it plays well...
>
> Here it is synonym for .call( ) and I wonder why ?

Probably because ( ) wants to be written after an expression.
Unfortunately it can't work in Ruby, and [ ] was the most similar.

There are other strange uses of [ ] as the "default" method of an object, or 
maybe a funny constructor: Dir["*.txt"], Hash[key1, value1, key2, value2].

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