From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2009-06-28T23:24:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Attr Methods and object setters

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:18 AM, David A. Black<dblack@rubypal.com> wrote:
> At the risk of someone saying that I've made it too cryptic, it could
> be one line shorter:
>
>  Nothing = Object.new
>  def name(value = Nothing)
>    @name = value unless value == Nothing
>  end
>

Actually the second line IS necessary

Nothing = Object.new
 def name(value = Nothing)
   @name = value unless value == Nothing
 end

 name 42 # => 42
 name # => nil



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