From: Ruby Newbee <rubynewbee@...>
Date: 2009-12-12T16:27:54+09:00
Subject: a question on method name

Hello,


This works fine for me:

class Horse

      def name
              @name
      end

        def nameset(v1,v2)
                @name = v1 + v2.to_s
        end

end

xx=Horse.new
xx.nameset("hello ",1)
p xx.name


But if I changed the method name, it won't work.

class Horse

      def name
              @name
      end

        def name=(v1,v2)
                @name = v1 + v2.to_s
        end

end

xx=Horse.new
xx.name=("hello ",1)
p xx.name


the error says:

syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting ')'
xx.name=("hello ",1)
                  ^

Please help, thanks in advance.