Minkoo Seo wrote:
>  chiaro scuro wrote:
>  
> >However, when you use it on the left handside you must
> >prefix with self, otherwise ruby thinks it is a variable n, rather
> >than a call to the attribute writer 'n='.
>  
>  
>  It is strange because
>  
>  n=1 is fine, but
>  n -= 1 is not.
>  
>  
> >I am not sure if this is supposed to be a bug.. it's certainly a
> >surprising behaviour.
>  
>  
>  Counter intuitive, at the very least. I really want this behavior to be
>  fixed.

Please explain what you mean.

Hal