From: Gavin Sinclair Date: 2004-07-29T12:27:12+09:00 Subject: Re: Automatically setting attributes On Thursday, July 29, 2004, 1:07:21 PM, David wrote: > But I don't mind putting in a good word for #instance_variable_set > :-) It's always annoyed me that you need to specify the '@' when using #instance_variable_set. Shouldn't it be implicit? instance_variable_set :foo, 5 Gavin