From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2009-02-26T04:33:32+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] rdoc 2.4.0 Released

On Feb 25, 2009, at 11:17, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> Eric Hodel wrote:
>> Would adding a :attr: directive be an acceptable alternative?  This  
>> would allow the documentation to be rendered as intended without a  
>> command line flag.
>
> The effect of the :attr: directive would be that any invocation of  
> the specified class method was to be treated as an attr? Could a tag  
> ("R" etc.) be specified along with the class method?

Yes, I think:

# :attr_reader: method_name

will be clearer than having R/W/RW in case the attr isn't visible to  
RDoc for some reason.

> And would the new rdoc still automatically recognize "attr_*" as  
> attrs, without the explicit directive? Sounds great to me, but it  
> would be good to hear from more library maintainers.

Yes.