From: abaelter@...
Date: 2020-01-10T06:34:47+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:96755] [Ruby master Feature#5781] Query attributes (attribute methods ending in `?` mark)

Issue #5781 has been updated by anders (Anders B�lter).


sudo (Sudo Nice) wrote:
> How about implementing it similarly to Crystal?
> 
>     attr_accessor? :foo

+1

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Feature #5781: Query attributes (attribute methods ending in `?` mark)
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/5781#change-83746

* Author: trans (Thomas Sawyer)
* Status: Assigned
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
* Target version: 
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Pretty sure this has come up before, but I'd like to revisit b/c I don't understand why it isn't allowed.

Sometimes I define "query" attributes, and in those cases I'd like the reader method to end in a `?` mark. Currently I have to do:

    # @attribute
    def foo?
      @foo
    end

or, if I don't mind a shadowing bare method,

    attr :foo
    alias_method :foo?, :foo

So why not just allow:

    attr :foo?

Currently this causes an error. But why? It just seems like a waste of potentially cleaner code.



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