From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-07-18T14:27:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Aliased setter methods behave differently than other methods?

Hi,

At Fri, 18 Jul 2003 14:10:24 +0900,
Jim Cain wrote:
> Notice that, in the class where the method is "hello=" rather than
> "hello", the call to the old method fails somehow. Its output is skipped.

enalias for hello= will be excuted as bellow:

    alias_method(('old_hello=').intern, 'hello='.intern)
    module_eval <<-EOF
       def hello=(arg)
          puts 'hola ' + arg
          old_hello=(arg)		# just local variable assignment.
       end
    EOF

-- 
Nobu Nakada