From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.lng.yahoo.com>
Date: 2003-04-29T07:05:32+09:00
Subject: Re: How to undefine a member variable ? (or at least hide it from YAML)

il Mon, 28 Apr 2003 19:53:14 GMT, Simon Vandemoortele
<deliriousREMOVEUPPERCASETEXTTOREPLY@atchoo.be> ha scritto::

>On Mon, 28 Apr 2003 at 06:16 GMT, Robert wrote:

>I am coding an Addressbook container class that contains Contacts. All
>contacts have many possible fields like:
>"name","comment","birthday","url", etc ... 
>Many of these are uncommon and will not be used by many people so they
>should not appear as empty definitions in my YAML dump _even if someone
>once assigned a value to it but then discarded it_.
>
>Does that clarify the situation ?

I'd just put my 0.02 euro in the tread:

maybe you could write an attr-like method to automatically unsets the
variables, kind of "rem_varname".