From: "Barnett, Aaron" <aaron.barnett@...>
Date: 2001-07-20T04:28:03+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18144] Re: instance variables by name?


ah!  'says=' becomes defined when i set it as attr_writer, not exactly what
i wanted to do, i wanted to protect direct access and have this method
control it.  i'd also like to do something similar for reading.  i'm doing
this because i want to filter certain values.

aaron

-----Original Message-----
From: Barnett, Aaron 
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 3:24 PM
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Subject: [ruby-talk:18142] Re: instance variables by name?



> self.send(name+"=", value)

thanks for the reply, i tried it and i get...

	undefined method `says=' for #<Cat:0xblahblah>