From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-09-11T06:54:59+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: MetaTags 1.0

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 04:05:26 +0900, Ben Giddings wrote:
> Richard Kilmer wrote:
>> Then:
>>   class String
>>     def &(klass)
>>       klass.from_str(self)
>>     end
>>   end
>> then you can do:
>>   c = "one hump or two" & Caml
> I like this better than Dave's suggestion of the Caml() function, but it
> is somewhat confusing.  Since the "&" is already used, I thought maybe
> another operator might make more sense, but I discovered that there is
> only a small set of operators that seem to be overloadable.  Is there a
> complete list somewhere of overloadable operators?

irb(main):001:0> "a" & "b"
NoMethodError: undefined method `&' for "a":String
        from (irb):1
irb(main):002:0> VERSION
=> "1.8.0"

-austin
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austin ziegler    * austin@halostatue.ca * Toronto, ON, Canada
software designer * pragmatic programmer * 2003.09.10
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