From: ES <ruby-ml@...>
Date: 2005-05-16T04:21:23+09:00
Subject: Re: RCR 307: allow attributes to take arguments for assignment


Le 15/5/2005, "Eric Mahurin" <eric_mahurin@yahoo.com> a �crit:
>I just put in a RCR that allows for a little more syntax sugar.
> The proposal is just to make:
>
>  object.attribute(arguments) = expression
>
>to be equivalent to:
>
>  object.send(:attribute=,arguments,expression)
>
>This would just be a nice-to-have RCR in my opinion as you can
>use standard methods instead.  But, it does seem like Rubyish
>syntax.  Here is the link if you are interested:
>
>http://www.rcrchive.net/rcr/show/307

Call me stupid, but I am afraid I do not understand what this
code would *do*. Could you clarify, maybe post an example (if
possible, with Ruby code)?

E

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