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Discussion on: Ruby Getters and Setters

 
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Scott Tadman

It just seems inconsistent to use year and self.year = ... in the code where one's bare and the other's necessarily prefixed, instead of @year consistently. This plus the way that @year is by default "private".

One of the major goals of object-oriented design is to properly contain any changes like that, so replacing @year with something else is at least contained to the one file or scope.

Subclass concerns are valid, though in Ruby it's generally understood you need to play nice with your parent's properties and avoid really getting in there and wrecking around.