From: Benoit Daloze Date: 2012-01-02T17:41:05+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:41868] [ruby-trunk - Feature #5825] Sweet instance var assignment in the object initializer Issue #5825 has been updated by Benoit Daloze. I think most of the time you need to parse or check your arguments, in which case this syntax would not be practical. Otherwise, you could use Struct to avoid the duplication: class Me < Struct.new(:name, :age, :location) end ---------------------------------------- Feature #5825: Sweet instance var assignment in the object initializer https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/5825 Author: Gosha Arinich Status: Open Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: Target version: I'm very excited about this feature in CoffeeScript, and think it might be a nice-to-have thing in Ruby 2.0. That's how I think it would look like: `class Me def initialize(@name, @age, @location); end end` So we can declare @variables in the initializer method parameters definition to avoid assigning instance variables from method arguments by hand, like: `class Me def initialize(name, age, location) @name = name @age = age @location = location end end` Want to hear what do you guys think, does that feature worth being included in 2.0? -- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org