From: David Weldon <dweldon@...>
Date: 2007-01-04T07:59:47+09:00
Subject: (wacky?) protected behavior

class Foo
   def store(o)
      o.dave=1
   end
end
class SubFoo < Foo
   def initialize
      @dave=2
   end
   def store
      super(self)
   end
   protected
   attr_accessor :dave
end
sf = SubFoo.new
sf.store
p sf

The above code executes and shows that sf.dave has been set to 1. I
assumed it would not work because I thought Foo should not have access
to protected members which were defined in its subclasses. Is this a
bug? If not, can someone explain why this works? Thanks!

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