From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-01-06T13:30:06+09:00
Subject: Re: attr_cast, one a small step for interface techniques

On Monday, January 6, 2003, 1:20:06 PM, Jim wrote:

>  Wow, that's cool. But, should it be named somthing like:

>   attr_accessor_cast
>   or
>   attr_accessor_with_cast

Those both being annoyingly long, I would prefer an implementation
that allowed:

  attr_accessor :x, :y, :name => :to_s, :age => :to_i

That is, :x and :y receive the normal attr_accessor treatment, while
:name and :age get casting as well.

You wouldn't be able to put "non-cast" arguments after "cast"
arguments, because, well, that's the way Ruby inline hash arguments
work, but that draws no complaint from me.

Gavin