From: "Stéphane Wirtel" <stephane.wirtel@...>
Date: 2008-02-22T04:59:55+09:00
Subject: Re: How to define the assignment operator in Ruby ?

> Stephanie,
Stephane and not Stephanie :-) Stephanie is the firstname for a girl :)
> 
> 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
Grrr, so I have reason about this operator, I can't override it.

Thanks