From: Thomas Fini Hansen <beast@...>
Date: 2004-03-14T00:02:11+09:00
Subject: Re: long string arguments

On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 11:53:33PM +0900, David A. Black wrote:
> Hi --
> 
> On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Thomas Fini Hansen wrote:
> > Well, that doesn't work for a number of reasons. For starters it
> > should basically quote "\nend\n...". And I don't think <| and |> are
> > valid names...
> 
>   a = Object.new
>   class << a
>     define_method("|>") {|s| puts s }
>   end
> 
>   a.send("|>", "a string")   # a string
> 
> :-)

OKOK, they're valid names, but particular useful names:

irb(main):005:0> a.|> "test"
NameError: undefined method `|' for #<Object:0x40286370>

;-) seems the parser sees > as an operator, which is fair.

-- 
Thomas
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