From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-08-27T14:14:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about Ruby extension API

Hi,

In message "Re: Question about Ruby extension API"
    on 02/08/27, Patrick Bennett <patrick.bennett@inin.com> writes:

|In my specific case, I have a Time-derived class that I created through 
|the API, and I have a method that needs to adjust the underlying time by 
|a specific offset.
|I'm trying to do the equivalent of self.+= (fixnum) but it doesn't work.
|Why wouldn't I be able to call += or = for my derived-class ?

"a+=b" is a syntax sugar for "a = a + b", so that it cannot be
redefined (since it is not a method). you have to redefine the "+"
method.

							matz.