From: Florian Gross <flgr@...>
Date: 2004-07-21T20:42:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Little query

Peter Hickman wrote:

> Any reason why x.last = value doesn't work?

Because then x.last(5) = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] would also have to work, but 
this is currently syntactically impossible.

I once submitted a RCR to allow that syntax, but it wasn't clear whether 
the community or matz really wanted to have this:

http://www.rcrchive.net/rcr/RCR/RCR157

Regards,
Florian Gross