From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-07-14T08:40:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Passing arguments to a class, how do?

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Hi --

On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, I=C3=B1aki Baz Castillo wrote:

> El Domingo, 13 de Julio de 2008, Luiz Vitor Martinez Cardoso escribi=C3=
=B3:
>> I'm learning Ruby, and i need to solve a problem:
>>
>>
>> class Person
>>    def namer=3D(name, surname)
>>       @var =3D name
>>       @car =3D surname
>>    end
>> end
>>
>> object =3D Person.new
>> object.namer =3D (how to pass the params here) ?
>
> I don't know why but it's not possible to define an instance method sufix=
ed
> with "=3D" and requiring more than one parameter, it gives an error when
> passing parameters:
>
> irb> object.namer=3D("NAME","SURNAME")
> SyntaxError: compile error
> (irb):34: syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting ')'

The idea of the =3D-methods is that they use assignment syntax, and you
can't do this:

   x=3D(1,2)

> But you can use "send":
>
> irb> object.send("namer=3D","NAME","SURNAME")

That kind of eliminates the nice assignment syntax :-)

Try this:

   def namer=3D(args)
     p args
   end

   object.namer =3D "David", "Black"   # =3D> ["David", "Black"]


David

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