On Jan 9, 2008 3:35 AM, David A. Black <dblack / rubypal.com> wrote: > Hi -- > > > On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Nikolai Weibull wrote: > > > On Jan 9, 2008 1:14 AM, David A. Black <dblack / rubypal.com> wrote: > > > >> I might have missed this somewhere, but I'm wondering why p is now > >> returning its argument > > > > To make it easy to drop in a p in a chain of methods. > > It's a private method, though, so it can't go in the middle of a > chain, and it's also functional (i.e., p 1, rather than 1.p). I guess > it could go at the beginning of a chain. I'm not sure I'm getting it, > thoguh. I guess I should have gone to bed instead of sending emails...