From: Shannon Fang <xrfang@...>
Date: 2002-12-01T23:23:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Cipher book for ruby

Gavin,

On Sun, 1 Dec 2002 22:30:26 +0900
"Gavin Sinclair" <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> wrote:

> 
> You won't program Ruby for long without using
> 
>   class Example
>     attr_reader :foo, bar
>     ...
>   end
> 
>   module Blah
>     ...
>     module_method :quux
>   end
> 
> So symbols are just part of Ruby growing pains.  I never had any problem with
In deed, we follow nearly the same route, before I knew there's a class
called symbol, there are no growing pains at all!

I thought attr_reader is a special notation, I never realised that it is
a method. and :name after attr_reader is just a special syntax, and
:name is indeed same as name, but the ":" is required by the attr_reader
notation.

After I learned that attr_reader is a method, and :name is a symbol, and
:name is not linked to name, my classical word collapsed, and I entered
a new world of modern ruby... Just like transition to the world of
Newton to Einstein... :)

Shannon