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[QUOTE="Steve Litt, post: 4498854"]
OK, let me see if I'm correctly understanding you.

:wilbur is an object. That object has two properties, which one could call, in
generic and not Ruby terms, a key and a value. The key is an integer. The
value is "wilbur". Neither the key nor the value can be changed during the
execution of the program. When we write:

attr_accessor :wilbur

what really happens is that the function attr_accessor() takes symbol :wilbur
as an argument, tacks on a @ to the string's value in order to make the true
class variable [USER=53238]@wilbur[/USER], and then writes a tiny get and set functions whose
names are wilbur, such that:

my_object.wilbur = 22
puts my_object.wilbur

So my initial comment that it seemed like magic is true only to the extent
that the "magic" performed by attr_accessor is to create the set and get
methods with the same name as the symbol that is its argument.

Do I understand what you're saying?

Thanks

SteveT

Steve Litt
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[email]slitt@troubleshooters.com[/email]
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