From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2003-12-16T05:22:06+09:00
Subject: Ruby-Gtk and accessor methods

Hi gurus and nubys,

I was playing a little with ruby-Gtk2 , and I have to admit that this
a wonderful library, thanks to everybody that provided it. 

Still, I can't understand something in the way bindings are done.

It seem that for many widgets there are 3 accessors for internal
variables,i.e. for Window's title we have

Window#title	 	# reader, returns title
Window#title=(title)	# writer, returns title
Window#set_title  	# writer, returns self


It's just my impression or this is the normal way ?
I mean the writer like 'attribute=' returns his argument while the
writer with "set_attribute" returns self .

Can I assume this is the behaviour of the whole Gtk stuff?



thanks in advance for any answer.