[BUG?] Object property

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1

Is this a bug?

def myProp= (var)
    @var = var
end

def myProp
    @var
end

myProp = "local"
myProp # => "local"
self.myProp # => nil

self.myProp = "works"
myProp # => "local"
self.myProp # => "works"

Whereas, I'd expect:
myProp = "hello"
myProp # => "hello"
self.myProp # => "hello"

Shouldn't the interpreter try to call the 'myProp' function before going
and creating a new 'myProp' local variable?

-Greg

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2

Fitzgerald,Greg wrote:

Is this a bug?

No, it is not (see bellow).

def myProp= (var)
    @var = var
end

def myProp
    @var
end

myProp = "local"

This will always be interpreted as the variable assignment to avoid inconsistency. Just imagine the case when you have such a statement where you do mean assignment to a local variable 'myProp' (storing intermediate results of some computation) and later on you add a method myProp=(value).

Gennady.