In message "[ruby-talk:5416] Re: Object.foo, setters and so on"
    on 00/10/11, Shugo Maeda <shugo / ruby-lang.org> writes:

|>   def foo=(v)
|>     ...
|>   end
|>   self.foo=5
|> 
|> would not raise an error.  Making
|
|Is this Object#foo= public method?

It will be in 1.6.2 (or the latest CVS).

							matz.