From: Christoph <chr_news@...>
Date: 2002-09-12T09:38:52+09:00
Subject: Re: private variables


"Paul Brannan"  wrote in
....
> I'm not sure there's much value in secret attributes/accessors.  I can
> see why you'd want it (if you need to call a method every time you

Actually I am fairly neutral about ``private_variables''  ...

> update a private instance varaible), but every method in the class still
> has access to both the accessor and the private instance variable, I
> can't help but feeling that there is a better solution.

Oh well my half-baked ``solution'' is well-done nonsense anyway
(semantically it is plain wrong)

In the mean time how about using

   _@I_am_a_private_instance_variable


- this also makes Guy's ``attr_reader problem'' obsolete?

/Christoph