From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2005-10-06T14:31:34+09:00
Subject: Re: foo= ... the only exception to the implicit-self rule ?

itsme213 wrote:
...
> I find this keeps breaking up an otherwise uniform style in code, and almost
> leads me towards abandoning #foo=(value) as a setter, and using #foo(value)
> instead (with some distinguished sentinel value to distinguish getter from
> setter, which I hate!)

You can avoid the sentinal (at a small cost):

def foo(*args)
  case args.size
  when 1
    @foo = args[0]
  when 0
    @foo
  else raise ArgumentError, "Too many args, #{args.size}"
  end
end

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