From: Meino Christian Cramer <Meino.Cramer@...>
Date: 2003-09-21T21:32:55+09:00
Subject: Operator overloading

Hi,

 With Ruby operaotr overloading is simply done by a definition like

	  class foo
			...

			def +( other )
				# some code
			end

			...
	  end 

 I thought I did something very clever ;) by defining also:

	  class foo
			...

			def +=( other )
				# some code
			end

			...
	  end 

 but Ruby wasn't impressed and gave me a SYNTAX ERROR instead on the
 first opening "(".

 Is it possible to overload operators like += -= &&= and such ?

 And how can I do this ?

 Kind regards and have a nice weekend,
 Meino