From: chiaro scuro Date: 2006-02-28T23:55:14+09:00 Subject: Re: Subclassing Struct.new On 2/28/06, mental@rydia.net wrote: > Quoting chiaro scuro : > > > I am not sure if this is supposed to be a bug.. it's certainly a > > surprising behaviour. > > Since variables are declared via first assignment, how could it be > done differently? I guess that in principle when you see an '=', you could lookup a 'name=' method before deciding that it is a local var assignment rather than a method call. I also understand that there will be perfromance issues with that. did I miss something?