From: "Mehr, Assaph (Assaph)" <assaph@...>
Date: 2004-03-05T10:03:16+09:00
Subject: Re: More alias problems

Ruby aliases are just making an object respond to a different name with an existing method; not expanded like shell aliases.

If I understand correctly when the parser sees: 2 + 5
It actually performs: 2.+ 5
i.e. send the '+' method to the FixNum object for 2, with a parameter of 5.

HTH

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Peirce [mailto:bob@peirce-family.com] 
Sent: Friday, 5 March 2004 11:50 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: More alias problems


I am missing something important about aliases.  I mentioned the "alias 
:cmd :`" problem before.  I also have a problem with this:

$ cat tst2
#!/usr/bin/env ruby

class Fixnum
         alias plus +
end

puts "#{2 + 5}"			--> 7

puts "#{2.plus(5)}"		--> 7

puts "#{2.plus 5}"		--> 7

# puts "#{2 plus 5}"		--> ERROR

Clearly, plus is not an exact alias for '+' , just as :cmd is not the 
same as :`.  Is it that ruby aliases are not the same as shell aliases?


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