From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2003-08-15T06:10:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Overloading ()

In article <Q4Q_a.124$0u4.66@news1.central.cox.net>,
Dave Benjamin <dave@3dex.com> wrote:
>"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?
>

I know you can overload () in C++, but can you overload () in Python?

Seems like allowing overloading of () is a potential tarpit...  and there 
are potential parser issues as well, but I defer to matz to answer your 
question.

Phil