From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2011-01-20T00:09:22+09:00
Subject: Re: The most recommended way of naming methods in Ruby

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Shadowfirebird
<shadowfirebird@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It's more relaxed since you can use any object reference as boolean
>> value.  For example, you may do
>>
>> class X
>>   attr_accessor :name
>>   alias name? name
>> end
>>
>> if the test should return a trueish value if the name is set (actually
>> not nil and not false).
>
> What, "classname = Myclass.name?"?    Ew.  Sorry, I wouldn't be comfortable with that.  Where in the core Ruby classes does that happen?

I am not sure what you are hinting at.  Clarification - just in case:
I did *not* redefine the class's name in the example above.

Cheers

robert

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