From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2006-03-01T10:50:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Subclassing Struct.new

Minkoo Seo wrote:
> chiaro scuro wrote:
> 
>>However, when you use it on the left handside you must
>>prefix with self, otherwise ruby thinks it is a variable n, rather
>>than a call to the attribute writer 'n='.
> 
> 
> It is strange because
> 
> n=1 is fine, but
> n -= 1 is not.
> 
> 
>>I am not sure if this is supposed to be a bug.. it's certainly a
>>surprising behaviour.
> 
> 
> Counter intuitive, at the very least. I really want this behavior to be
> fixed.

Please explain what you mean.

Hal