From: David Douthitt <DDouthitt@...>
Date: 2000-03-16T16:50:04-06:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01934] Re: Class Variables

Something interesting..... this works:

  class Instance
     attr_accessor :startup

     def initialize
        @startup = TRUE
     end
  end

  test = Instance.new;
  print "test = ", test.startup, "\n";

However, if you rename "startup" to "startup?" it fails with:

  ./ruby.functions:46: parse error
        @startup? = TRUE
                   ^

The question, then, of course, is why?