From: Kristof Bastiaensen <kristof@...>
Date: 2004-04-09T19:24:14+09:00
Subject: Re: New variable types and assorted lunacy

On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 17:34:38 +0200, gabriele renzi wrote:

> il Wed, 07 Apr 2004 12:40:34 +0300, "T.Oakley" <root@127.0.0.1> ha
> scritto::
> 
> You can't ovverride = sorry. It's not a message so we are stuck with
> stupid accessors :)
> 
> 
> PS
> it would be cool anyway to be able to override assignment :)

Hello,

The reason why assignment is not a method, is because it
doesn't operate on an object.  Instead it operates on the
variable that contains the object.  As far as I know, variables
are not objects.

Anyway it wouldn't be useful to override assignment, because you
can't change an object itself (self).  Once created it will remain
the same object (like in procedural languages like scheme).
But you can change the contents of an object.  If you like to 
have a value that can contain something, use an array,

Cheers,
Kristof