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The Passive-Aggressive Hack Warning

Today I chuckled at this bit of documentation for Object#instance_variable_set in the Pickaxe.

Sets the instance variable named by symbol to other_obj, thereby frustrating the efforts of the class’s author to attempt to provide proper encapsulation.

And then I decided that perhaps I should find a better way to accomplish what I was doing.

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