From: John Wilger <johnwilger@...>
Date: 2006-11-01T14:09:19+09:00
Subject: Re: variable access through self

On 10/31/06, Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca> wrote:
> I've seen a lot of examples in Rails code where they're accessing what appear
> to be instance variables from self. Something like
>
> self.foo = true
>
> Now, I'm assuming that you can only access methods this way, so this is
> actually a method call of
>
> self.foo=(true)
>
> Is that right? I'm not always clear on it.

That is correct.

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John Wilger
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