From: Kent Dahl <kentda+news@...>
Date: 2003-12-07T04:57:03+09:00
Subject: Re: unary +@ can't be defined for Symbol?

T. Onoma wrote:
>   class Symbol
>     def -@
>       [ self ]
>     end
>     def +@
>       [ self ]
>     end
>   end
>   p -:a  # => [ :a ]
>   p +:a  # => :a
> 
> What's the problem here?

Problem parsing plus and colon probably. I noticed that:
   p(+(:a)) #=> [:a]
which does decidedly look bad. No problem when the symbol is stored in 
another value, as:
   x = :a
   p +x #=> [:a]

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