From: Jeff McNeil <jeff@...>
Date: 2006-02-27T05:57:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Using attr_writer?

Are you running it in irb?  As someone else mentioned.. you'll get a  
"nil" message as that's the return value of puts.

-Jeff

On Feb 26, 2006, at 3:48 PM, Huw Collingbourne wrote:

> Curious. I just copied, pasted and ran your code. It produces the  
> string
> 'baz'. I don't get an error.
>
> best wishes
> Huw Collingbourne
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> "Joe" <joe@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:2df9ba1d3b2002133798b2b6d3d429fc@ruby-forum.com...
>> I'm confused about attr_writer. I thought it worked like this:
>>
>> class Foo
>>  attr_writer :bar
>>
>>  def do_stuff
>>    puts @bar
>>  end
>> end
>>
>> foo = Foo.new
>> foo.bar = 'baz'
>> foo.do_stuff # gives nil error
>>
>> Can somebody enlighten me? :)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Joe
>>
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>>
>>
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