From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2009-05-29T22:35:13+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:23624] Re: Defining #name= at the class level

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 3:12 AM, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:

> � �In my opinion, the behavior of attr_accessor should be change to
> � �either a) raise exception or cause error for overriding superclass
> � �method b) or remain silent without overriding attr access method.

If you changed it to raise exception when a method is overridden on
the superclass, would you also change it to do the same when it
happens on the current class?  If so, maybe this options would help
programmers find accidental bugs.

I think that if an error is not used, the behavior should be changed
not to be silent but to display a warning.
Although I don't mind that this replaces the responsibility in the
developer's hands, it might be nice to have some help spotting
problems.

What do you think?

-greg