From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2009-04-29T17:35:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Why does attr_accessor in module require 'self.'?


On Apr 28, 2009, at 16:34 , 7stud -- wrote:

> I guess the idea here:
>
>>  def bar
>>    a = "bar"  #<----****
>>  end
>>
>>  def baz
>>    self.a = "baz"
>>  end
>
> is that when you call a method without a receiver, self is implied.   
> So
> the bar method would be equivalent to:
>
>>  def bar
>>    self. a = "bar"  #<----****
>>  end
>>
>
> Therefore bar and baz have the same format and should do the same  
> thing.
> But...

no. consider local variable assignment to be higher precedence than  
message send.

var = val

will ALWAYS be local variable assignment, even if you have #var=.