From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2007-01-04T09:19:39+09:00
Subject: Re: (wacky?) protected behavior


David Weldon wrote:
> 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!

But youre calling store from the subclass.

T.