From: James Britt <ruby@...>
Date: 2005-09-18T13:36:26+09:00
Subject: Re: proposed attr writer patch

Daniel Berger wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Currently, if you do something like this:
> 
> attr_accessor :foo?, :bar!
> 
> You end up with "bar!=", "foo?=", "bar!", and "foo?".  The problem is 
> that "bar!=" and "foo?=" are both pointless and syntactically invalid. 
> Wouldn't it be better if accessors followed the DWIM approach so that we 
> end up with something both useful and syntactically valid?


Why would someone write

attr_accessor :foo?, :bar!

And would it not be better to just have people learn proper Ruby, rather 
than add yet another exception to how Ruby behaves?



James