On Dec 22, 2009, at 19:42 , Tony Arcieri wrote: > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Tony Arcieri <tony / medioh.com> wrote: > >> So much for the "it's just the lexer!" theory... >> > > Err whoops, perhaps I've had a little too much wine... class Fixnum def +@ puts "YES #{self}" end def -@ puts "NO #{self}" end end -7 # => -7 +7 # => 7 -(7) # => NO 7 +(7) # => YES 7 7.send(:-@) # => NO 7 7.send(:+@) # => YES 7