From: Neville Franks Date: 2007-01-26T09:02:05+09:00 Subject: Ruby language question Hi, I've been working on adding Ruby language support to our IDE "ED for Windows" the past few weeks and am stuck understanding the marked statement in this code: module Mod def size @size end def size=(val) # what does this mean @size = val end end None of the reference material I've found so far shows this. I saw it in the documentation for: attr(symbol, writable=false) => nil Thanks, Neville -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.