From: Love U Ruby <lists@...>
Date: 2013-03-29T03:58:49+09:00
Subject: Confusion with setter method

C:\>irb --simple-prompt
DL is deprecated, please use Fiddle
>> class A
>>   def property= value
>>     x, y = value
>>     p value
>> end
>> end
=> nil
>> A.new.property= 1,2
[1, 2]
=> [1, 2]
>> A.new.property = 1,2
[1, 2]
=> [1, 2]
>> A.new.property =(1,2)
SyntaxError: (irb):9: syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting ')'
A.new.property =(1,2)
                   ^
        from C:/Ruby200/bin/irb:12:in `<main>'
>> A.new.property=(1,2)
SyntaxError: (irb):10: syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting ')'
A.new.property=(1,2)
                  ^
        from C:/Ruby200/bin/irb:12:in `<main>'
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I am on below version:

C:\>ruby -v
ruby 2.0.0p0 (2013-02-24) [i386-mingw32]
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Questions:

(a) How does without `splat` operator value took 1,2?
(b) Why did `A.new.property= 1,2` work well,but `A.new.property= (1,2)`
not?

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