From: Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
Date: 2002-08-10T04:13:33+09:00
Subject: Re: ambiguity between local variable assignment and writter method

On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 13:01, GOTO Kentaro wrote:
> But what will I get from:  puts .setter = 123

good question
 
> Well, I know that this probrem is considered one of pit hole.  But
> this syntax may lead implicitly us to a style: Use @var rather than
> var() even if that is a simple attribute.  Indeed I prefer @var or
> @var=val bacause the semantics of theml are simpler and clearer then
> #var() or #var=(val).

unfortunately, this is actually bad form. if a class instance variable
is set up to be accessed via accessor methods, they should be used at
all times. even internally. while, it is functionally equal for the
simplist case, writter methods may do other things as well, like
validate the argument.

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~transami