From: Christian Szegedy <szegedy@...>
Date: 2002-09-12T19:00:54+09:00
Subject: Re: private variables

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In message "private variables"
>     on 02/09/11, ts <decoux@moulon.inra.fr> writes:
> 
> | Why I always write stupid things ? See the effect of attr_accessor with
> | private variable
> 
> Oh, I forget to mention that private instance variables should not be
> exported by attr_accessor etc., because of the fact these variables
> are private.  Publicly exported private instance variable is
> contradicting existence.
> 
> 							matz.
> 

I wonder why. Could you give some concrete reason for it?

I thought, being private for a variable means that it can
only be acessed by the methods of its class to avoid
name collisions with instance variables in derived classes.

Regards, Christian