From: Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak@...>
Date: 2002-08-05T02:41:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Detecting when an instance variable is created/set

Sun, 4 Aug 2002 22:32:44 +0900, Harry Ohlsen <harryo@zip.com.au> pisze:

> When you run this, it prints "Setting @a to 456".  The initial setting of @a 
> in initialize doesn't get caught.  Ie, a=() doesn't seem to come into effect 
> until AFTER the instance variable has been created.

It doesn't matter if it existed. @a=... just doesn't call a=().
Only obj.a=... does.

Otherwise the body of a=() which contains @a=... would loop forever.

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