In message "[ruby-talk:01057] Re: .."
    on 00/01/05, Dave Thomas <Dave / thomases.com> writes:

|>   * operator .. and ... are hard coded, so you can only call it by
|>     using `send'.  So answer should be yes for the current
|>     interpreter.
|
|Thanks - that makes sense, although I did discover that
|
|  a. .. b
|
|does invoke the .. method too!

That is caused by the same bug I mentioned in [ruby-talk:01056].

|ps. Is there a some significance to the sheep and hummingbird symbols
|at the top of the pages in the Ruby book? My wife wants to know. ;-)

While talking about Ruby's mascot aminal (like camel for Perl) in
Japanese list, sheep and hammingbird were the final candidate.  I
couldn't decide before publishing, so that both animals are on top of
the pages.  My wife really loves sheeps as a mascot, so if I publish
book from O'Reilly one day, sheep may be the title animal.

							matz.