From: Ned Konz <ned@...>
Date: 2002-08-03T06:06:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Overriding Assignment

On Friday 02 August 2002 01:55 pm, Reginald Braithwaite-Lee wrote:
> Is it possible to override the assignment operator?
>
> I tried "def operator=", and while the compiler seems to accept the
> syntax, my method is not called at run time :-(

What would be the receiver?

Variables aren't objects, so they can't have methods.
Variables merely point to objects.

You *can* define methods with names that end in equals signs, if you 
want.

If you do that at the outer scope (i.e. as a private method in 
Object), it might look like you've overridden assignment:

def xyz=(something)
	p something
end

xyz = 123

But, of course, there's no variable named xyz.

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