From: Philipp Hofmann <phil@...126.de>
Date: 2008-02-25T07:58:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Suprising behaviour with "def property=" method

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 07:41:31AM +0900, Farrel Lifson wrote:
> I had a bit of a surprise with the following
> 
> class Foo
>   def bar(value)
>     @bar = value.upcase
>   end
> end
> 
> f = Foo.new
> my_bar = (f.bar = "bar")
> 
> I initially thought that my_bar would == "BAR" but in fact it equals
> "bar". It seems no matter what the final value of the bar= method is
> the return value is always the parameters. First time I've run into
> this so I thought I would share and ask if anyone can think of anyway
> to get around this?
> 
> Farrel
> 


my_bar = f.send(:bar=, "bar")

g phil