From: Ilan Berci <coder68@...>
Date: 2008-02-21T23:10:54+09:00
Subject: Re: How to define the assignment operator in Ruby ?

Stephane Wirtel wrote:

> 
> I don't believe that's possible to assign something to an instance
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Stephane

Stephanie,

In ruby, we don't assign to an instance as you mentioned, we assign to a 
variable that can hold any type.  We therefore can't override the 
assignment operator.

BUT you can override an assignment operation.. such as

class Foo
def bar= (val)
  @bar = val
  p "I am assigning #{val} to @bar"
end

hth

ilan

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