From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2008-04-30T22:33:30+09:00
Subject: Re: How to create "def method(item)= (value)" ?

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I単aki Baz Castillo wrote:
| 2008/4/30, Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@googlemail.com>:
|>  | You could also do:
|>  |
|>  |   def param[]=(key,value)
|>  |     @params[key] = value
|>  |   end
|>  |
|>  |   object.param[key] = value
|>
|>  Oh, I'm gonna steal that idiom if you don't mind. ;)
|
| I'm sorry, but as I've replied in this thread that method naming
| (using []) is invalid in Ruby  :(

Sort of. As a singleton method, you get the syntax error. But not if you
define [] as a method:

irb(main):001:0> def []=(key,value)
irb(main):002:1> end
=> nil

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