Ruby operator method calls vs. normal method calls

Question

I\'m wondering why calls to operator methods don\'t require a dot? Or rather, why can\'t normal methods be called without a dot?

Example

class Foo
  def +(obje         


        

Answer 1

Missing braces was some "advantage" for ruby 1.8, but with ruby 1.9 you can't even write method_0 method_1 some param it will be rejected, so the language goes rather to the strict version instead of freeforms.