From: Siep Korteling <s.korteling@...>
Date: 2008-07-14T05:32:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Passing arguments to a class, how do?

I単aki Baz Castillo wrote:
> El Domingo, 13 de Julio de 2008, Luiz Vitor Martinez Cardoso escribi坦:
>> object = Person.new
>> object.namer = (how to pass the params here) ?
> 
> I don't know why but it's not possible to define an instance method 
> sufixed
> with "=" and requiring more than one parameter, it gives an error when
> passing parameters:
> 
> irb> object.namer=("NAME","SURNAME")
> SyntaxError: compile error
> (irb):34: syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting ')'
> 
> But you can use "send":
> 
> irb> object.send("namer=","NAME","SURNAME")

So maybe the OP is happy with dropping the troublesome "=" in his method 
name.

class Person
   def namer(name, surname)
      @var = name
      @car = surname
   end
end

object = Person.new
object.namer("Boop","Betty")
p object

hth

Siep
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