On 2/28/06, mental@[...].net <mental@[...].net>  wrote:
>  Quoting chiaro scuro <kiaroskuro@[...].com>:
> 
>  > I am not sure if this is supposed to be a bug.. it's certainly a
>  > surprising behaviour.
> 
>  Since variables are declared via first assignment, how could it be
>  done differently?

I guess that in principle when you see an '=', you could lookup a
'name=' method before deciding that it is a local var assignment
rather than a method call.

I also understand that there will be perfromance issues with that.

did I miss something?