On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:37:15 +0200, Florian Gross wrote:
Hi,

> Peter Hickman wrote:
> 
>> Any reason why x.last = value doesn't work?
> 
> Because then x.last(5) = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] would also have to work, but this
> is currently syntactically impossible.
> 
> I once submitted a RCR to allow that syntax, but it wasn't clear whether
> the community or matz really wanted to have this:
> 

I'd like that.  I would use this to acces class variables as
an collection.  For example: myobj.names(2) = "myname"
It would work like myobj.names[2] = "myname", but call the method
on myobj in stead of myobj.names.

Regards,
Kristof