From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-04-18T21:49:59-05:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:02511] Documenting attributes


I'm trying to be fairly brutal in cutting down the size of the
language reference we're writing.

We're already documented all the methods in the built-in classes and
modules, and so have covered 'attr' and friends.

In the language reference, I've covered method definitions of the form

  def fred=(n) ...

I've also described the invocation of this method whenever
anObject.fred appears as an lvalue.

So, my question: do I need to document class attributes in the
language reference, or are they just a library artifact?


Dave