From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-03-22T04:59:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Proposal: new operator: '<-' (for assignments)

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 11:20:27 +0900, Phil Tomson wrote:
> Since we can't override '=' (and it's a good idea that we can't)
> it seems that it would be nice to have another overridable
> operator for assigning values in classes. So, I'm proposing that
> we allow a new operator '<-' (less-than minus) which can be
> overridden to allow assignment, for example:

I'm still not enamoured of the concept of using this instead of
a #replace method, but what about "<:" instead?

  class Foo
    def initialize(value)
      @val = value
    end
    
    def <:(newVal)
      @val = newVal
    end
  end
    
  foo = Foo.new("this value")
  # .....later...
  foo <: "some new value"

-austin
-- Austin Ziegler, austin@halostatue.ca on 2003.03.21 at 14:56:27