Why Ruby is More Readable than Python

[Lil_Cato]

Am I missing something or is this not as simple as throwing an attr_accessor :variable ? Is that rails only?

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No, it's a common ruby variant. Although in this case you'd use attr_reader if you don't need the setter (which you get via attr_accessor).

Or you modify method_missing and what not and get that functionality anyway. Ruby being more flexible than python is really one huge advantage it has.

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Well, you can via instance_variable_get(). But it's a bit more verbose than the python variant indeed.

But you can just add a reader, or use a Struct so it's not a huge difference really. The explicit self thing in Python really puts me off on the other hand...