From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-12-24T10:57:09+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8021] Re: defined? problem?

"Christoph Rippel" <crippel@primenet.com> writes:

> I did not understand that the parsing rules of
> Ruby imply that  a plain `sym =  x' is interpreted
> as a  '(self.sym)  =   x' ... .

Actually it's the other way around:

    sym = ...

is interpreted as an assignment to a local variable. That's why you
need an explicit 'self.' to make it a method call.


Dave