Re: Allowing "?" in struct members

--- Nathaniel Talbott <[e-mail]> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 23:09:56 +0900, Florian Gro> <[e-mail]> wrote:

<snip>

> While I like this idea, I wonder what should be done
> with the following:
> 
>   class C
>     attr_accessor :foo?
>     attr_accessor :foo
>   end
> 
> Throw an error? Kill 'C#foo?' while adding 'C#foo'?
> I'm not sure what
> would make sense.

Do nothing.  The "foo=" method would be redefined in
the second attr_accessor call.  The "foo", "foo?" and
"foo=" methods would then all exist.

After all, you can do this:

class C
   attr_accessor :foo
   attr_accessor :foo
end

And nary a peep from Ruby, even with -w -d.

Regards,

Dan


		
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