From: Robert Peirce <bob@...>
Date: 2004-03-05T10:39:33+09:00
Subject: Re: More alias problems

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On Mar 4, 2004, at 8:03 PM, Mehr, Assaph (Assaph) wrote:

> 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.

Okay, but why doesn't it do the same when it sees 2 plus 5?  2.plus(5) 
and 2.plus 5 both work but 2 plus 5 does not.
I'm not saying it should; I'm just wondering why it doesn't.  I don't 
really understand what is going on when you use
aliases.

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