From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-10-11T15:27:10+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:5414] Re: Object.foo, setters and so on

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:5411] Re: Object.foo, setters and so on"
    on 00/10/11, Shugo Maeda <shugo@ruby-lang.org> writes:

|> Yes.  But setter should always be public.  I'll fix this.
|
|Do you mean that I'll be able to call private setters like this?
|
|bar = 1

No.  I meant top-level setter like

  def foo=(v)
    ...
  end
  self.foo=5

would not raise an error.  Making

  foo=5

to call `foo=' method is impossible I think.

							matz.