From: djberg96@... (Daniel Berger)
Date: 2002-01-14T23:09:13+09:00
Subject: Re: a wishlist for ruby 2.0

"Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote in message news:<000f01c19ca5$10f96040$5d091b18@austin.rr.com>...
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Alan Black" <dblack@candle.superlink.net>
> To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
> Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 8:19 PM
> Subject: Re: a wishlist for ruby 2.0
> 
> 
> > Hello --
> > 
> > On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> > 
> > > * syntax: make foo.bar(2,3,5)=7 mean foo.bar=(2,3,5,7)
> > 
> > What's the reasoning behind that?
> 
> Not to speak for matju, I can see a logic behind this.
> I think he wants to let bar= have other arguments
> besides the single argument.
> 
> Hal

That would be considered an lvalue sub, right?  How do most other
languages handle this?  Or is there a consistant behavior among
languages?

Regards,

Dan