From: Christoph Rippel <crippel@...>
Date: 2001-03-06T07:35:15+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:12066] Re: RCR: shortcut for instance variable initialization

> From: Christoph Rippel [mailto:crippel@primenet.com
I am afraid I was not very clear,

> I was thinking that would have been forced 
> into writing (basically reviving standard 
> variable declaration I still prefer;-)
> 
> def bla(right)
> attr_accessor :left
> left = right
> end 

I mend to so say that since variables are nothing 
but constant function calls  (who's (calling) value 
can be changed via assignment - i.e. a call to an 
attr_writer) why have the two distinct concept of
variables and functions around at all? 

As for initialized function calls my idea was to 
introduce a magic syntax on the function name lets
say

def fun@(a, b, c) 
   ...
end

which would mean that the lines
def fun(a,b,c)
@a,@b,@c = a,b ,c
...
end

are created or restrict it to ``initialize'' via 
``initialized''. This is not as flexible David's
proposal (which is pretty good IMO), but I am
not very opinionated on the matter anyway ...

Christoph