From: Lloyd Zusman <ljz@...>
Date: 2005-11-16T19:32:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Nested classes

Groleo Marius <groleo@gmail.com> writes:

> [ ... ]
>
> Now , back to the code ,the attr_reader was the magic word from what
> Pit posted .
> Maybe you too observed, but why in ruby
> this  attr_reader : b  is different from  attr_reader :b
>                    ^space                             ^no space

Because colon-identifier represents a symbol, and attr_reader takes
symbols as arguments.  The colon is not a separator.  For example:]

  attr_reader :a, :b, :c

Each of :a, :b, and :c are symbols.


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