From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-04-09T17:31:56+09:00
Subject: Re: instance_variable_set question

Hi,

In message "Re: instance_variable_set question"
    on 03/04/09, Phil Tomson <ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com> writes:
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|It _is_ a bit confusing, though - if you made an attr_accessor for @bar, 
|you refer to it as :bar, not :@bar :

You're specifying attribute names (i.e. exporting method names), which
does not contain "@" in them, not instance variable names.
attr_accessor defines methods that use instance variables which names
are "@"+attribute-name.

							matz.