From: Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...>
Date: 2008-02-22T09:53:37+09:00
Subject: Re: How to define the assignment operator in Ruby ?


On Feb 21, 2008, at 9:10 AM, Ilan Berci wrote:
> 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

Setter methods may look like assignment, but semantically they are  
method calls.  I think it just confuses matters to call setter method  
invocation an 'assignment operation'.

The desire to override assignment or define an assignment operator is  
generally indicative of some misunderstanding regarding Ruby's object  
model.

Gary Wright