From: Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
Date: 2002-08-10T05:21:45+09:00
Subject: Re: ambiguity between local variable assignment and writter method

On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 14:14, Dave Thomas wrote:
> It would have to check on every single assignment, at all times, in
> your code.
> 
>    1000.times do |i|
>      a = 1
>      def a=(v)
>         puts v
>      end if i == 9987
>    end

oh! the strangness of ruby's beauty! :-)

your talking about a speed issue, yes? how significant?

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~transami