Should have mentioned this before, but if you're really curious about this sort of thing, the "Well Grounded Rubyist" is excellent.
http://www.manning.com/black2/ (just a happy owner of said book) On Jul 10, 2010, at 10:54 AM, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > > On Jul 9, 2010, at 6:21 PM, MattB wrote: > >> >>> You shouldn't need to. >> >> Because... (?) >> >> (Not being facetious). > > Because for all practical purposes they are the same thing. They aren't of > course, but only the class itself should know or care about that. > > Look at ActiveRecord... say I've got a Widget class with a title attribute... > > W = Widget.new > w.title = "Foo" > puts w.title > > *both* the 2nd and 3rd lines are actually methods. You're not accessing a > variable of the instance of the class. > > Does it matter to you? No. > > In the first case the method is "def title=()" and in the second it's "def > title()". Maybe. Rails probably abstracts even that. But that's the > general idea. > > -philip > > >> >> On Jul 10, 2:11 am, Marnen Laibow-Koser <[email protected]> wrote: >>> MattB wrote: >>>>> variable_name >>>>> method_name >>> >>>> But why?! Since methods don't need (), how are we supposed to >>>> instinctively know what's a method and what isn't when reading someone >>>> elses code? (Or our own when we've forgotten what we wrote!) >>> >>> You shouldn't need to. The similarity is deliberate. >>> >>> (BTW, I would do CONSTANT_NAME, not CONSTANTNAME.) >>> >>> >>> >>>> Matt. >>> >>>> PS. Anyone play spot the Ruby Newbie, score 10 points! >>> >>> -- >>> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
