From: Christoph Rippel <crippel@...>
Date: 2000-12-24T09:40:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8019] Re: defined? problem?


> Sorry - that was ambiguous. I meant is was confused about the use of
> the variable __this__.
@__this__  is the this pointer from C++ - so my solution is way
to complicated -  I could have replaced @__this__ with a simple
self (which I thought would not work because it should have been
 there implicitly).
The whole problem is matter of parsing rules in Ruby - with a little
syntactic help Ruby is going to do the right thing anyway

class A
        attr_accessor :sym
        def try
          self.sym = "works"
        end
end
a = A.new
a.try
p a.sym # works

which renders my complain mood in the first place.

Christoph