Bug or Feature? (proxying methods)

Ruby
1

I have the following code:

class ReturnSelfAfter

def initialize(context)
@context = context
end

def method_missing(sym,*args,&block)
@context.send sym, *args, &block
@context
end

end

class Object
def return_self_after
ReturnSelfAfter.new(self)
end
end

While it works fine proxying most of methods (not inclusive standard
ones, of course), it seems to fail on setters:

class C ; attr_accessor :abc ; end

C.new.return_self_after.abc = 1
=> 1

While #abc returns C class instance, of course:

C.new.return_self_after.abc
=> #<C:0x705014>

So, is it a bug or a feature? Or am I just missing something?

(ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i686-darwin8.7.1])

Thank you in advance

2

On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:12:54 -0000, [email protected] [email protected]
wrote:

@context

While it works fine proxying most of methods (not inclusive standard
=> #<C:0x705014>

So, is it a bug or a feature? Or am I just missing something?

It’s a feature - assignment in ruby always returns the assigned value,
no
matter what you try to return from the method. I guess it’s a question
of
consistency.