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Bug #10967

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Is "warning: private attribute?" wrong?

Added by spastorino (Santiago Pastorino) about 9 years ago. Updated over 8 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Assignee:
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Target version:
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ruby -v:
ruby 2.3.0dev (2015-03-01 trunk 49796) [x86_64-darwin14]
[ruby-core:<unknown>]

Description

The following code ...

class Y
  def initialize
    @x = "ZOMG"
  end

  def print_x
    puts x
  end

  private

  attr_reader :x
end

Y.new.print_x

outputs ...

test.rb:12: warning: private attribute?

I tend to think this warning is wrong, I was surprised by https://github.com/rack/rack/pull/811 and I think this is a completely valid use case.

Also this code ...

class Y
  def initialize
    @x = "ZOMG"
  end

  def print_x
    puts x
  end

  def assign_x
    self.x = "ZOMG ZOMG"
  end

  private

  attr_accessor :x
end

y = Y.new
y.assign_x
y.print_x

Works fine with warnings also. So a private writer works ok when the receiver is self because Ruby has a special case for it, this make me think that private writers were thought to be used.

So ... am I wrong thinking that the warning should be removed or the self special case shouldn't work and be removed from Ruby code?. It doesn't make sense to me to have both things.

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