From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-01-12T00:00:29+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01096] Re: YADQ (Yet Another Dumb Question)

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:01085] Re: YADQ (Yet Another Dumb Question)"
    on 00/01/11, GOTO Kentaro <gotoken@math.sci.hokudai.ac.jp> writes:

|Several months ago, Matz said that `constant' may be renamed to
|`shared variable' or other name in the future.  I need a sort of
|variable which cannot be redefined and I object to lack of `constant'
|but I have not sent comments yet :-<

I haven't told anybody yet, but I changed my mind and abandoned the
idea of making constants into shared variables since then.  If you
peek into 1.5 source, you'll find all function/variable names
concerning shared_variables are already removed.

Instead, I think vaguely of introducing new variable type in the
future - shared variable or class/module variable.  I need to find
prefix first, maybe `@@'.

							matz.