From 8c89f3f6083c93fa7ca04148a0e7aa07ff0d4545 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luke Holder <lukemh@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 16:30:51 +0800
Subject: 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.
---
 ruby.html.markdown | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

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
+
 ```
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From 99e1c31b19547fbe117a77047bb23eff0edafaea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luke Holder <lukemh@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 15:26:51 +0800
Subject: Updated location, and reduced examples

also added array [] access example.
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 ruby.html.markdown | 29 ++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ruby.html.markdown b/ruby.html.markdown
index 7729e0ff..9a59be90 100644
--- a/ruby.html.markdown
+++ b/ruby.html.markdown
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ filename: learnruby.rb
 contributors:
   - ["David Underwood", "http://theflyingdeveloper.com"]
   - ["Joel Walden", "http://joelwalden.net"]
+  - ["Luke Holder", "http://twitter.com/lukeholder"]
 ---
 
 ```ruby
@@ -30,6 +31,11 @@ You shouldn't either
 10 * 2 #=> 20
 35 / 5 #=> 7
 
+## Arithmetic is just syntactic sugar
+## for calling a method on an object
+1.+(3) #=> 4
+10.* 5 #=> 50 
+
 # Special values are objects
 nil # Nothing to see here
 true # truth
@@ -121,6 +127,12 @@ array = [1, "hello", false] #=> => [1, "hello", false]
 array[0] #=> 1
 array[12] #=> nil
 
+# Like arithmetic, [var] access
+# is just syntactic sugar
+# for calling a method [] on an object
+array.[] 0 #=> 1
+array.[] 12 #=> nil
+
 # From the end
 array[-1] #=> 5
 
@@ -313,21 +325,4 @@ 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
-
 ```
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From df90e4957246c422c00b07f788d825d327304d11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luke Holder <lukemh@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 15:28:40 +0800
Subject: Fixed comment style

---
 ruby.html.markdown | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ruby.html.markdown b/ruby.html.markdown
index 9a59be90..a3bcbbd5 100644
--- a/ruby.html.markdown
+++ b/ruby.html.markdown
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ You shouldn't either
 10 * 2 #=> 20
 35 / 5 #=> 7
 
-## Arithmetic is just syntactic sugar
-## for calling a method on an object
+# Arithmetic is just syntactic sugar
+# for calling a method on an object
 1.+(3) #=> 4
 10.* 5 #=> 50 
 
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