From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2007-03-13T07:30:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Calling a setter method in self (without self.)

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Tapio Kelloniemi wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'm writing a code where it would be desirable to be able to call setter
> methods in self without having to specify self explicitly. Like:
> x = 0 # calls self.x=, does not assign to a local variable
>
> In Ruby 1.6 this was impossible. Is this still the case in 1.8 and 1.9?
> I believe it is, but would like to be sure.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- 
> Tapio

a work around...

   harp:~ > cat a.rb
   require 'rubygems'
   require 'attributes'

   attribute :x

   x 42

   p x

   harp:~ > ruby a.rb
   42

cheers.

-a
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