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author | Luke Holder <lukemh@gmail.com> | 2013-07-29 16:30:51 +0800 |
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committer | Luke Holder <lukemh@gmail.com> | 2013-07-29 16:30:51 +0800 |
commit | 8c89f3f6083c93fa7ca04148a0e7aa07ff0d4545 (patch) | |
tree | 27d253248031782b55895e904295db1d5011d593 /ruby.html.markdown | |
parent | 09eadbb8951c3404c893e669ae2c4c5e6ad947cb (diff) |
Explained syntactic sugar is really just method calls.
Objects in ruby receive a message via the . (dot) notation. The arithmetic operators are just syntactic sugar of the . message notation.
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diff --git a/ruby.html.markdown b/ruby.html.markdown index 38d060a3..7729e0ff 100644 --- a/ruby.html.markdown +++ b/ruby.html.markdown @@ -312,4 +312,22 @@ dwight.name #=> "Dwight K. Schrute" # Call the class method Human.say("Hi") #=> "Hi" + + +=begin +Arithmetic is just syntactic sugar +for calling a method on an object: +=end +1.+ 1 #=> 2 +1.+(1) #=> 2 + +8.- 1 #=> 7 +8.-(1) #=> 7 + +10.* 2 #=> 20 +10.*(2) #=> 20 + +35./ 5 #=> 7 +35./(5) #=> 7 + ``` |