From: Jeremy McAnally <jeremymcanally@...>
Date: 2007-01-26T09:07:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby language question

That is setting an attribute, which essentially means you can do this:

class MyClass
  include Mod
end

x = MyClass.new
x.size = 9
=> 9
x.size
=> 9

--Jeremy

On 1/25/07, Neville Franks <subs@surfulater.com> wrote:
> 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
>
> --
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>
>


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