From: Dave Benjamin <dave@3dex.com>
Date: 2003-08-15T03:10:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Overloading ()

"Yukihiro Matsumoto" <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote in message
news:1060863609.376407.27138.nullmailer@picachu.netlab.jp...
>
> |Perhaps it would be a good idea to add []
> |to Continuation to enable both to repsond to the same protocol?
>
> Nice idea.  I will add it.

Wow! Didn't take much arm-twisting there, eh? =)

I'm the "Python guy" from comp.lang.functional. ;) I'd still like to
understand why the () operator can't be overloaded in Ruby, necessitating
the use of [] for Proc objects instead. What was the motivation behind that
restriction?

Thanks,
Dave