From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-02-28T13:41:40+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11738] Re: RCR: shortcut for instance variable initialization

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:11675] Re: RCR: shortcut for instance variable initialization"
    on 01/02/27, Jean Michel <jmichel@schur.institut.math.jussieu.fr> writes:

|I do not understand exactly the nature of the objections. It seems to me
|to be a fairly innocuous notational shortcut. If I understand correctly the
|proposal, it is just that when you have a method
|
|     def f(a,@b,c)
|     ...
|     end
|
|it is understood as exactly equivalent to
|
|     def f(a,dummy,c)
|     @b=dummy
|     ...
|     end
|
|unless I missed something?

It is what Dave wanted, yes.  I personally feel like that method
paremeters are names to the values passed, not hidden assignment,
regardless of how implementation works.  So that side effect,
i.e. altering instance/global variables, are "too much" for them,
I think.

							matz.