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MyASPN >> Mail Archive >> ruby-talk
ruby-talk
Why can't I redefine "<<" method to allow two parameters?
by ibc other posts by this author
May 8 2008 5:42AM messages near this date
Re: Ruby has to be interpreted line by line in runtime, does this affect Ruby's execution efficiency badly? | Re: Why can't I redefine "<<" method to allow two parameters?
Hi, very exrtange:


class MyArray < Array
  alias original_add <<
  def <<(n,k)
    original_add "#{n}: #{k}"
  end
end

my_array = MyArray.new
=>  []

my_array << ("Header", "Value")

SyntaxError: compile error
(irb):25: syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting ')'
my_array << ("Header", "Value")
                         ^


Any reason for this? It seems that << is a littled "hardcoded", isn't?

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