From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2002-08-10T06:37:27+09:00
Subject: Re: ambiguity between local variable assignment and writter method

Tom Sawyer <transami@transami.net> writes:

> > You change the behavior of @var=value to call the self.var= method if
> > it exists unless you are in the self.var= method, then you set the var.
> 
> that's not a bad option. this way you could actually use @instance=
> instead of self.instance= and it would also make for good form. 

The behavior of parent classes would vary if they were subclassed by
classes that defined specific accessors, which might be upsetting.


Dave