On Jan 18, 2007, at 3:35 PM, Daniel Berger wrote:

> Heck, why not
> take this a step further and create automatic getters and setters? You
> can always undef or redefine them.

I would really be against that.  If you do that, there's no point in  
how Ruby currently has all instance data as private.  It blows  
encapsulation wide open and being very against the spirit of OO just  
doesn't feel Rubyish to me.

James Edward Gray II