Hi,

In message "Re: [self.]setter vs. local variable initialization"
    on Fri, 5 Nov 2004 23:58:44 +0900, "itsme213" <itsme213 / hotmail.com> writes:

|Will Ruby 2.0 continue to interpret
|    x = 5
|as initializing a local variable vs. calling a setter method?

It will.  x = 5 will be always interpreted as local variable
assignment, even when x= setter is defined.

							matz.