From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-09-13T17:07:34+09:00
Subject: Re: private variables

Hi,

In message "Re: private variables"
    on 02/09/13, Kent Dahl <kentda@stud.ntnu.no> writes:

|There is a (narrow) use here, where one might like to have a private
|instance variable and share it out with attr_* methods; avoiding
|namespace pollution in baseclasses that are to be subclassed alot. 

Possible.  But, you know, attr_accessor is just a short form of:

  def foo
    @foo
  end
  def foo=(val)
    @foo=val
  end

So you can export a private instance variable as an attribute by hand,
but not by attr_accessor, etc.

							matz.