From: Gennady <gfb@...>
Date: 2004-08-04T07:25:20+09:00
Subject: Re: [BUG?] Object property

Fitzgerald,Greg wrote:
> Is this a bug?

No, it is not (see bellow).

> 
> def myProp= (var)
>     @var = var
> end
> 
> def myProp
>     @var
> end
> 
> myProp = "local"

This will always be interpreted as the variable assignment to avoid 
inconsistency. Just imagine the case when you have such a statement 
where you do mean assignment to a local variable 'myProp' (storing 
intermediate results of some computation) and later on you add a method 
myProp=(value).

Gennady.