From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@...>
Date: 2012-06-08T09:14:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Inexplicable Argument Error

2012/6/6 Bartosz Dziewoński <matma.rex@gmail.com>:
> However, "obj.method=(a,b)" is not interpreted as "call `method=` on
> `obj` with arguments `a`, `b`", but as "assign `(a,b)` to
> `obj.method`", and there's no such thing as "(a,b)". (Technically that
> assign is then converted to another function call, but let's skip
> that.)

Ruby methods ending in "=" are special:


def foo=(var)
  return 42
end

foo="HELLO"
=> "HELLO"


It returns "HELLO" instead of 42. So it's clear that the parses treats
those methods in a "different" way.

-- 
Iñaki Baz Castillo
<ibc@aliax.net>