On Sep 22, 7:26 am, SpringFlowers AutumnMoon <summercooln... / gmail.com> wrote: > so how about just a method not inside a class, can it be named "foo=" as > well? if so, how does Ruby know foo=1 is really an assignment or a > method call foo=(1)? > > Ruby doesn't seem to like "foo=" as a method: self.foo = 10