From: raja <vineetraja@...>
Date: 2007-06-01T18:02:39+09:00
Subject: How to specify access modifers for variables????

I know this could be naive but still:

class Person
  attr_reader  :genre
  protected  :genre
  def psedonym
    @name
  end
end

In the class above, I can declare variable genre to be protected,
but when I try to do the same for variable name, I get this error

another.rb:3:in `protected': undefined method `Person' for class
`Person' (NameError)

And the same error props up when I comment the line #attr_reader  :genre

It appears that i have to provide accessors for the variables before
declaring access modifiers;

and which in fact are "methods", thus IS IT IMPOSSIBLE TO DECLARE ACCESS
MODIFIERS FOR VARIABLES ?

Can Anyone Clarify??

Thanks
Raja

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