Re: [rgui-dev] Jumping Right In

[Tom Sawyer]

On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 16:26, Massimiliano Mirra wrote:
> It's not really instance variables that we're after.  They represent
> the state of an object, not what we want to expose of it to the
> outside.  That's what getter methods are for.  So, your current way of
> dynamically adding code to *methods* might have implementation
> drawbacks but is conceptually the right one or one of the right ones.

did i also mention the problem of binding to arrays? how do you catch
#<< methods that alter an instance array? even if you have an
attr_reader instance method that is supposed to ONLY allow one to READ
the instance variable, if it is an array or other complex object, one
can manipulate it with #<< and the like. i wrote about this on ruby talk
some time ago. i was told to use .dup.freeze to prevent this. don't
think that's going to work for us ;-)

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~transami