From: Daniel Martin <martin@...>
Date: 2007-12-02T07:05:39+09:00
Subject: Re: problem with 'self'. behaves different on setting and gettin

One minor correction to an otherwise perfectly fine explanation:

Jari Williamsson <jari.williamsson@mailbox.swipnet.se> writes:

> Yes, but with different result behind the scenes. 'x' is the same as
> 'x()', while 'self.x' is the same a '@x'

Not quite.  self.x is the same as x(), but:

self.x = ...

is the same as self.x=(...).  The connection to @x only happens
because of the definition for the x= method in the orginal post.

-- 
s=%q(  Daniel Martin -- martin@snowplow.org
       puts "s=%q(#{s})",s.to_a.last       )
       puts "s=%q(#{s})",s.to_a.last