From: dblack@...
Date: 2007-01-26T09:44:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby language question

Hi --

On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Neville Franks wrote:

> Back to my original code snippet. Isn't @size = val redundant?

Not if you want @size set to val :-)

Consider this:

   class C
     def size=(val)
       puts "Nice try!"
     end
   end

   c = C.new
   c.size = 20    # Nice try!

The instance variable @size is nowhere to be seen, and has not been
involved with any of this.  size= is just a method name.


David

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