From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2003-02-19T05:19:15+09:00
Subject: Re: How to test for existence of instance variable?

On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 02:08:07AM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> In message "Re: How to test for existence of instance variable?"
>     on 03/02/19, Paul Brannan <pbrannan@atdesk.com> writes:
> |Why should this be fixed?  The warning looks reasonable to me.
> 
> Because it's non intuitive.  There's no logical relationship between
> an attribute reader "foo" and an instance variable "@foo" to the
> users.

Creating an attribute reader and not initializing the attribute (either
with @foo= or with self.foo=) is a bug.  The user should never see this
warning except for buggy code.

Paul