From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-12-30T07:02:35+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8297] Re: p24 of Programming Ruby, attr_reader

John Rubinubi <rubinubi@cyberspace.org> writes:

> I think some of the confusion about this comes from the last
> sentence on p24 which says "The corresponding instance variables,
> @name, @artist, and @duration, will be created automatically." I
> know I was also confused by this section and thought I didn't have
> to initialize the variables as shown on p19.

Ruby has no way of knowing what the association is between instance
variables and constructor parameters, so you still need to do that
work yourself--