From: Dossy Date: 2002-07-17T02:40:47+09:00 Subject: Re: TkText no -textvariable workaround? On 2002.07.17, Hal E. Fulton wrote: > > > Dossy writes: > > > > > Speaking academically, the receiver is object a, the method is =(x). [...] > But seriously, I think Dossy is mistaken... except in the > special case of attribute writers and accessors, assignment > is never considered to be a method call in Ruby. Correct? I did say "academically" -- in a pure OO language where everything is an object, the receiver would be the object a, and the method -- or, the message being sent, would have been "=(x)" ... I wonder how Ruby would have been different if Object#=(x) were defined as an alias to #replace ... -- Dossy -- Dossy Shiobara mail: dossy@panoptic.com Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/ "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)