Re: How to create "def method(item)= (value)" ?

From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:33:30 -0500

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Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:
| 2008/4/30, Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
|> | You could also do:
|> |
|> | def param[]=(key,value)
|> | @params[key] = value
|> | end
|> |
|> | object.param[key] = value
|>
|> Oh, I'm gonna steal that idiom if you don't mind. ;)
|
| I'm sorry, but as I've replied in this thread that method naming
| (using []) is invalid in Ruby :(

Sort of. As a singleton method, you get the syntax error. But not if you
define [] as a method:

irb(main):001:0> def []=(key,value)
irb(main):002:1> end
=> nil

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