From: Johannes Friestad <johannes.friestad@...>
Date: 2005-12-07T14:29:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Mixins and variables

OK, thanks. Can I force "x=(whatever)" to mean a method call instead
of an assignment?
I thought the parantheses were supposed to do that?

jf

On 12/6/05, Daniel Sheppard <daniels@pronto.com.au> wrote:
> It's got nothing to do with mixins:
>
> class TestClass
>   def x=(arg)
>    @x = arg
>   end
>   def x
>    @x
>   end
>   def monkey(arg)
>    x = arg
>   end
> end
>
> irb(main):012:0> a = TestClass.new
> => #<TestClass:0x2ac6e48>
> irb(main):013:0> a.monkey('aa')
> => "aa"
> irb(main):014:0> a.x
> => nil
>
> In the monkey method, x = arg is assigning to the local variable x, not
> calling the method x=().
>
> Refer to the x variable either as self.x or @x.
>