In Ruby, negation is a method
Posted by matijs 30/01/2014 at 06h16
These past few days, I’ve been busy updating RipperRubyParser to make it compatible with RubyParser 3. This morning, I discovered that one thing that was changed from RubyParser 2 is the parsing of negations.
Before, !foo
was parsed like this:
s(:not, s(:call, nil, :foo))
Now, !foo
is parsed like this:
s(:call, s(:call, nil, :foo), :!)
That looks a lot like a method call. Could it be that in fact, it is a method call? Let’s see.