From: "nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)" Date: 2013-06-23T09:41:50+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:55598] [ruby-trunk - Feature #8563][Assigned] Instance variable arguments Issue #8563 has been updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada). Category set to syntax Status changed from Open to Assigned Assignee set to matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Target version set to Next Major ---------------------------------------- Feature #8563: Instance variable arguments https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8563#change-40087 Author: sawa (Tsuyoshi Sawada) Status: Assigned Priority: Normal Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Category: syntax Target version: Next Major =begin Often times, people want to assign given arguments to instance variables, especially inside the method `initialize`: def initialize foo, bar, buz @foo, @bar, @buz = foo, bar, buz ... end I propose to let method definition take instance variables as arguments so that: def initialize @foo, @bar, @buz ... end would be equivalent as above. =end -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/