From: Ara.T.Howard@...
Date: 2005-05-10T05:24:25+09:00
Subject: Re: An idiom I like... modifiable defaults

On Tue, 10 May 2005, Glenn Parker wrote:

> Hal Fulton wrote:
>>
>> Sometimes objects are created with certain defaults.
>> One way to override them is with default values in
>> the constructor (and often corresponding writer methods).
>>
>> But sometimes I "don't like" the default and want to
>> change it (for this program/session).
>>
>> Often I use class-level accessors for that purpose.
>
> Not very thread-safe, at least not in your example's implementation.

even this is not:

   class C
     attr_accessor :x
   end

unless you make it.

FYI.

-a
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