From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-09-21T15:00:18+09:00
Subject: Re: the point of omitting parentheses

On Sep 20, 2006, at 9:00 AM, Henrik Schmidt wrote:
> Phrogz wrote:
>> Would you really type:
>>    class Foo
>>      attr_accessor( :bar )
>>    end
>
> Yes, I would and I'll tell you why. attr_accessor is a method call.  
> Vincent Fourmond mentioned alias, which isn't, but how would I know  
> that?

Because it gives you a syntax error if you try to write it like a  
method call.

> For example:
>
> class Foo
>   attr_accessor :foo, :bar
>   alias :baz, :foo
> end
>
> I would expect this to be syntactically correct. It isn't, though.  
> alias is a keyword that seems to be syntactic sugar for alias_method 
> (:baz,:foo)

alias came first, alias_method later.

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