From: dblack@...
Date: 2005-12-07T14:37:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Mixins and variables

Hi --

On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Johannes Friestad wrote:

> 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?

You have to give the explicit receiver 'self'.  The thing is, local
variable assignments can have things with parens on the right, so that
alone is not enough to exempt that expression from being interpreted
as a l.v. assignment.


David
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