From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2006-12-03T20:30:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Simple and stuppid bug (can anyone find it?)

On 12/3/06, paul <pjvleeuwen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I thought it to be good programming style to make attribute assignment
> chainable. When using the attr_writer an assignment returns te value
> assigned which is not what I want, so I tried to do-it-myself.

If you do want to do this, I'd suggest an attr_setter method, that
generates both foo= and set_foo methods. Then you can chain via

a.set_a(100).set_b(10)

which looks much better than the a.a=(100).b=(10)

martin