From: Stefan Matthias Aust <sma@3plus4.de>
Date: 2001-05-24T08:11:25+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15634] Re: help attr_reader

Mark Slagell <ms@iastate.edu> wrote:

>>  def x(x) @x = x end

>Well -- I'm sure it was a typo, but the writer would be x=(x), not
>x(x).  And of course if you wanted to write them out on one line you'd
>need semicolons.
>
>   def x=(x); @x=x; end

Yes, that was a typo - thanks - and no, you don't need to add
semicolons.  Ruby is clever enough to know that a new expressions
starts behind the parameter () and before end, you never need a
semicolon.

bye
-- 
Stefan Matthias Aust \/ Truth Until Paradox