From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-03-31T17:25:03-06:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:02317] Re: Question about attribute writers

Clemens Hintze <c.hintze@gmx.net> writes:

> At least I would expect it! It is like answered in your FAQ! How does
> Ruby determine what a variable is? It is really stright-forward, IMHO.
> 
>    Look if there was an assignment before
>       yes => compile a variable access
>       no  => compile a method call.

True - I asked the wrong question. Rather than asking "is this the
expected behavior", I guess I meant "is this the behavior that someone 
would expect?" It seems to violate the principle of least surprise.

Perhaps a warning would a good idea in these circumstances:

  warning: local variable eclipses instance method

Dave


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