From: Jason Creighton <androflux@...>
Date: 2003-07-19T00:04:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Aliased setter methods behave differently than other methods?

On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 23:19:37 +0900
Jim Cain <list@jimcain.us> wrote:

> > 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
> > 
> 
> Of course! Duh. I stared and stared at that one and never saw it from 
> Ruby's point of view. Now I just have to figure out how to make it look 
> like a method call.

Wouldn't self.method_name_here=(arg) do the trick?

Jason Creighton