From: Chad Fowler <chad@...>
Date: 2003-09-11T07:00:14+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: MetaTags 1.0

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Austin Ziegler wrote:

# 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"
# 

Did you miss the part that said 

class String
  def &(klass)
....etc.

?

Chad