From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-12-23T08:19:45+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7982] Re: defined? problem?

"Christoph Rippel" <crippel@primenet.com> writes:

> >    class Fred
> >      attr_accessor :bert
> >
> >      def thing
> >        a = bert      # uses accessor
> >        bert = a + 1  # creates a new local variable called bert
> >      end
> >     end
> pathology confused me pretty much the first day I was toying around
> with ruby and I did not fully understand why this happens until
> recently. I think there are good reasons to override this confusing
> behavior of Modulo.attr_accessor in Class.attr_accessor.

How would you do that?


Dave