From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-11-30T00:22:19+09:00
Subject: Re: `attr_accessor` and predicate/question mark methods.

Hi --

On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Tim Becker wrote:

> Hi,
> I just stumbled across this weird behaviour and I'm puzzled that I've
> not noticed it before. If I use `attr_accessor` to define a predicate
> method, i.e. one ending in a question mark, the following happens:
>
> class Test
> attr_accessor :weird?
> end

I get:

irb(main):002:0> class Test
irb(main):003:1> attr_accessor :weird?
irb(main):004:1> end
NameError: invalid attribute name `weird?'

What version of Ruby are you using?


David

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