From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2005-07-25T22:18:56+09:00
Subject: Re: self.x=(value) in private?

Patrick Gundlach wrote:
> Daniel,
> 
> thank you for your explanations.
> 
> 
> [...]
> 
> 
>>An expression that looks like ‘identifier = value’ always
>>sets a variable, and never calls a method.  This is simply
>>the way the language is defined.
> 
> 
> Then this part in Pickaxe II is the first section that irritates me.
> 
> Now that I know that this behaviour is intentional, I can use it in my
> coode.

A writer method (ending in =) is a bit of a special case.
Ordinary methods work as you were expecting.


Hal