From: Patrick Gundlach <clr6.10.randomuser@...>
Date: 2005-07-26T00:05:58+09:00
Subject: Re: self.x=(value) in private?

>
>>> An expression that looks like =91identifier =3D value=92 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.
>
> What's wrong with the Pickaxe II here?  Can you point to the problem =20
> section?

Oh, I see, I misread the example. I was talking about 'Variable/Method
Ambiguity', Chapter 22, page 329 and I thought that is also related to
assignment. But that is not stated there. Thanks for asking again, so I
reread the section and made things clearer. (Although the description
of Attribute Assignment, p. 350 did not mention the special case that
these methods can be private).

Patrick