From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2011-01-19T03:11:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Calling by Reference - Two Questions

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Mike Stephens <rubfor@recitel.net> wrote:
>>Robert Klemme wrote
>> You cannot assign to self!
>> Calling self#[]= is something different - this is actually a method
>> that must be implemented for the object that self points to.
>
> Robert, can you expand on that?
>
> My example has an object of type Array. Array has a method =
> implemented, so in what way is []= different to = ? One works on self;
> the other raises an error.

= is not a method of object, is the assignment operator. Modifies
which object is referenced be the variable in the left hand side.

Jesus.