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On Tuesday 31 July 2001 12:02am, Aleksei Guzev wrote:
> Why not allow starting method names with digits?
> This would allow measurement units support. I.e. 10cm == 100mm and
> much more.

That would be a nightmare! Consider:

class Integer
  def 0
    puts "Something."
  end
end

# what does this do? is it a float, 1.0? or is it method 0 on object 1?
1.0

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