From: Angel Martin <angel@...>
Date: 2004-04-29T10:00:23+09:00
Subject: Re: alias or alias_method problem

El jue, 29-04-2004 a las 02:29, Kristof Bastiaensen escribi�:

> On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 08:36:03 +0900, Angel Martin wrote:
> 
> >   alias_method "_[]=","[]="
> >   alias_method "_[]" ,"[]"

> Try the following instead:
> 
> class Hash #hash[] === hash[nil]
>   alias_method "old_bracket_assign", "[]="
>   alias_method "old_bracket" ,"[]"
>   def []=(*ag)
>     value=ag.pop
>     return old_bracket_assign(nil, value) if ag.size<1
>     old_bracket_assign(*(ag.push(value)))
>   end
>   def [](*ag)
>     return old_bracket(nil) if ag.size<1
>     old_bracket(*ag)
>   end
> end

No work :-(, raise a SyntaxError in the last line of the file:
./ghost.rb:2:in `require': ./manplug.rb:191: syntax error (SyntaxError)
        from ./ghost.rb:2
My Hash code is about line 125.
I don't understand why it protest with a SyntaxError :-?

Thanks for reply.
Regards,
  Angel