[cairo] New ruby cairo binding landed in CVS

mental at rydia.net mental at rydia.net
Tue Feb 8 15:01:37 PST 2005


Quoting Ned Konz <ned at squeakland.org>:

> Also, it looks as if the
>
>  alias line_width= set_line_width
>
> doesn't work inside methods of that class (you have to use
> set_line_width()
> instead). I didn't remember that.

Ruby always interprets an assignment to an unqualified name as an
assignment to a local variable.

If you want, you can qualify the name to make it work:

 self.line_width = whatever

-mental



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