Re: Different return values for setter methods

On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 07:30:38AM +0900, Mauricio Fernandez wrote:
> > (P.S. I spent some time mucking around in parse.y and eval.c trying to answer
> > this myself and couldn't find any clues. If anyone knows, I'd appreciate
> > being directed to the part of the code that makes sure to return the argument
> > rather than the result of the method call for setter methods)
> 
> 
> rb_eval (eval.c)
> 
>       case NODE_ATTRASGN:
> 	{
> [...]
> 	    rb_call(CLASS_OF(recv),recv,node->nd_mid,argc,argv,block,scope,0,self);
> 	    result = argv[argc-1];
> 	    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 	    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 	}
> 	break;
> 
> instead of  result = rb_call(...).

Thanks for taking the time to point it out. I suspected it might be that but
the -1 wasn't what I was expecting.

marcel
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