From: Ryan Davis Date: 2009-06-26T03:29:47+09:00 Subject: Re: Attr Methods and object setters On Jun 25, 2009, at 11:05 , Marc Heiler wrote: > This does not seem to work. My question is, why was = used, but so > many > people in their ruby code also allow the last version? It usually has > this form: > > object.set_bla 'foo' no, we don't. I'd argue strongly against "so many". It is highly non- idiomatic.