From: Shu-yu Guo <shu@...>
Date: 2004-04-06T07:19:01+09:00
Subject: Re: object.@attribute

Hal Fulton wrote:

> In practice, I've never used attr_writer. It's hard to imagine
> something useful being write-only and not readable. (Insert
> Perl wisecrack here.)

I use it when I want to define a toggle, like the following:

class Foo
   attr_writer :bar
   def bar?
       @bar
   end
end

Not that I _can't_ use attr_accessor, I just don't want to in this case.

-- 
That's some catch, that Catch-22.
Oh, it's the best there is.