From: Doug Jolley <lists@...>
Date: 2012-07-01T01:05:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Accessor Methods with a Twist

Oh.  I see.  My knee-jerk reaction from reading the responses was, "Why
haven't I encountered this issue before?"  I think the answer is that
heretofore I have always specified an explicit receiver.  So, now I see.
Thanks very much.

There is one additional issue.  I'm wondering if there is any way that I
could call these accessor methods from within a module.  IOW, it would
seem to me that I should be able to do something like this:

@name = 'Doug'

def name=(name)
  @name = name
end
def name()
  return @name
end

module MyModule
  def MyModule.get()
    puts(some_receiver.name())
  end
end

MyModule::get()

I guess the problem is that I don't know what receiver to use.
Thoughts?

Thanks to all who contributed.

         ... doug

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