> 3. I didn't understand your justification of getter and setter.Since > instance variables work fine why would you need to define a setter and > getter.
>>Because it's good programming practice. Ok, I took my own advice an read some articles about 'why getter and setters' and there are enough people that think it's actually bad programming practice. But as far as I can tell the reasons I stated are why the book is is using getters and setters--however, the book does not always use the getters and setters, so it is being consistent. -- Posted via http://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.
