From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-01-12T00:07:11+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01097] Re: YADQ (Yet Another Dumb Question)

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:01086] Re: YADQ (Yet Another Dumb Question)"
    on 00/01/10, Dave Thomas <Dave@thomases.com> writes:

|However, if this change sticks, we'll lose the ability to have
|immutable variables, which seems like a big loss.

Even though I abandoned the idea of changing constants into shared
variables, constants in Ruby are not immutable variables for long
time, without making serious problems.  They are just `unchangable
from within methods'.  Some says they're not constants, and I agree at
least partly.  That's the origin of a shared variable idea.

|When I tried my example, I found another difference between method
|names starting with upper and lower case characters:

|   def Dave.A=(val)  parse error

That's a bug.  I'll fix it.

							matz.