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Re:Lisping at JPL Revisited by lisper on Sunday January 29, 2023 @07:12AM (#34567378)
That's true, but actually using a literal as a object is forbidden by the syntax.

    Python 3.8.9 (default, Mar 30 2022, 13:51:16) 
    [Clang 13.1.6 (clang-1316.0.21.2.3)] on darwin
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    >>> 1.__abs__
      File "<stdin>", line 1
        1.__abs__
          ^
    SyntaxError: invalid syntax
    >>>
Ruby allows this:

    irb(main):001:0> 1.2.to_s
    => "1.2"
I think that's weird.
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Re:Lisping at JPL Revisited by pjmlp on Sunday January 29, 2023 @09:00AM (#34568132)
Only because those are special methods only allowed to be directly called by the runtime, doesn't change that the language model is actuall OOP based.

You could have used one of those that is allowed instead, example:

    >>> (3.2).is_integer()
    False
The parentheses are needed due to parsing precendence.

So here is your Ruby like example in Python.

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Re:Lisping at JPL Revisited by lisper on Sunday January 29, 2023 @10:50PM (#34575581)
Fair enough. I guess I should probably take another look at Ruby.
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Re:Lisping at JPL Revisited by ABahajaj on Sunday January 29, 2023 @06:40PM (#34574001)
Like the other comments said, (1).__abs__

or

a = 1

a.__abs__

works

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