From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-12-02T01:57:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Cipher book for ruby

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shannon Fang" <xrfang@hotmail.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 8:23 AM
Subject: Re: Cipher book for ruby


> 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... :)

:) A good feeling, no?

May all your surprises be pleasant ones...

Hal