From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-10-07T02:17:29+09:00
Subject: Re: foo= ... the only exception to the implicit-self rule ?

Hi --

On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Trans wrote:

>
> Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> In message "Re: foo= ... the only exception to the implicit-self rule ?"
>>     on Thu, 6 Oct 2005 13:16:49 +0900, "itsme213" <itsme213@hotmail.com> writes:
>>
>> |I know that otherwise one would somehow have to indicate local variables.
>> |Was this the main reason for this choice?
>>
>> Yes.
>
> I'm not sure local precedence is worth it though. Consider:
>
>  require 'yaml'
>  eqmeths = []
>  ObjectSpace.each_object{|o|
>    s = o.methods.select{ |m| m.to_s =~ /=$/ }
>    eqmeths |= s
>  }
>  y eqmeths
>
>  ---
>  - "[]="
>  - "=="
>  - "==="
>  - ">="
>  - "<="
>  - ui=
>  - debug=
>  - sync=
>  - lineno=
>  - pos=
>  - default=
>  - ssl_available=
>  - uid=
>  - euid=
>  - gid=
>  - egid=
>  - groups=
>  - maxgroups=
>  - abort_on_exception=
>  - priority=
>  - critical=
>  - families=
>  - private_types=
>  - anchors=
>  - bufsize=
>  - version=
>  - verify_data=
>  - only_signed=
>  - verify_signer=
>  - verify_chain=
>  - verify_root=
>  - only_trusted=

Can you explain what you mean?  I'm not getting it.


David

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