Misc #15249: Documentation for attr_accessor and attr_reader should be corrected

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[CaryInVictoria (Cary Swoveland)]

The documentation for Module#attr_accessor (v2.5.1) begins, "Defines a named attribute for this module, where the name is symbol.id2name, creating an instance variable (@name) and...". Similarly, the documentation for Module#attr_reader states, "Creates instance variables and...". These statements do not appear to be correct:

class C
  attr_accessor :dog
  attr_reader :cat
end
C.new.instance_variables #=> []