On Sep 28, 2005, at 7:15 PM, Jeff Wood wrote:

> oops, that should have been
>
> attr_accessor :a
>
> ( which is again a method call against self which because it's inside
> of a class definition *IS* the class object that's being
> built/modified )

I'm not sure what you are trying to show here.  You build accessor  
methods but you never call them, as you just set the instance  
variable directly.

James Edward Gray II