From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-08-25T22:49:43+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20372] Re: attribute setting method white space, bug?

zarkon_z@hotmail.com (Zarkon) writes:

> def durationInMinutes=(value)
>   ......
> 
> I put in some extra white space like this
> 
> def durationInMinutes = (value)
>   ......
> 
> I got the following result
> 
> D:\ruby\ont\Song.rb:14: parse error
> def durationInMinutes =(value)

Well, say you had a method called move_piece. Would be be OK to add
extra space in there too?

   def move _ piece(value)

Probably not :)

The '=' is effectively part of the method name (as are the ! and ?
suffixes) and so should really be typed as such.


Regards


Dave