Class variable weirdness

ruby-talk
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If you just want to get to a class method from the instance, you can do
a.class.foo=10

Gennady.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Combas [mailto:alex.combas@gmail.com]
Sent: Wed 1/25/2006 20:20
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: class variable weirdness

hi David

On 1/25/06, dblack@wobblini.net <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:

> Can anyone explain why this is happening?
[...]
> puts "%s, %s" % (C.up,C.foo=10)

You need an array there: [C.up, C.foo=10]. The way you've got it,
what's happening is that it's being parsed as two assignments:

   C.up = 10
   C.foo = nil

Thanks I appreciate the quick reply, I think the () was a bit of
python showing its roots.
What I would like to do now is get instances of those classes and use the
methods that I've defined but I cant figure out how, without changing the class.

class A
  @@foo=1
  def self.foo=(n)
    @@foo = n
  end
end
puts "%s" % A.foo=10
a = A.new
#this does not work for an instance
#puts "%s" % a.foo=10

--
Alex Combas
http://noodlejunkie.blogspot.com/

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This is exactly what I was looking for, and
the cool part is that the syntax actually makes sense.
Very apprecaited.

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On 1/25/06, Gennady Bystritsky <Gennady.Bystritsky@quest.com> wrote:

If you just want to get to a class method from the instance, you can do
a.class.foo=10

Gennady.

--
Alex Combas
http://noodlejunkie.blogspot.com/