RCR 307: allow attributes to take arguments for assignment

[Eric Mahurin]

I just put in a RCR that allows for a little more syntax sugar.
The proposal is just to make:

object.attribute(arguments) = expression

to be equivalent to:

object.sendattribute=,arguments,expression)

This would just be a nice-to-have RCR in my opinion as you can
use standard methods instead. But, it does seem like Rubyish
syntax. Here is the link if you are interested:

http://www.rcrchive.net/rcr/show/307




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[ES]

I just put in a RCR that allows for a little more syntax sugar.
The proposal is just to make:

object.attribute(arguments) =3D expression

to be equivalent to:

object.sendattribute=3D,arguments,expression)

This would just be a nice-to-have RCR in my opinion as you can
use standard methods instead. But, it does seem like Rubyish
syntax. Here is the link if you are interested:

http://www.rcrchive.net/rcr/show/307

Call me stupid, but I am afraid I do not understand what this
code would *do*. Could you clarify, maybe post an example (if
possible, with Ruby code)?

E

 

[nobu.nokada]

Hi,

At Mon, 16 May 2005 04:00:48 +0900,
Eric Mahurin wrote in [ruby-talk:142729]:

I just put in a RCR that allows for a little more syntax sugar.
The proposal is just to make:

object.attribute(arguments) = expression

to be equivalent to:

object.sendattribute=,arguments,expression)

I'd tried it once and found it was so tough to let yacc swallow
it. But will try again later.