From: Kristof Bastiaensen <kristof@...>
Date: 2005-01-10T09:51:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Python vs Ruby

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 07:03:56 +0900, Lothar Scholz wrote:

> Hello Premshree,
> 
>>> Orthogonal OO design, blocks and open classes are in my opinion the only
>>> serious differences in the language. A mark-sweep GC vs. reference
>>> counting GC is also a huge difference but only visible in the C-API.
> 
> PP> Yes, that's one of the major differences I point out when I compare
> PP> Ruby with Python. The other thing I used to point out was that Ruby
> PP> doesn't have a "self" for instance variables :-D I can't use that
> PP> anymore, though: that has been elminated now, I'm told.
> 
> But Ruby uses @ and @@ as a prefix, also not 100% perfect.

Then what would you suggest?
I think visually distinguishing between local and instance variables isn't
so bad.

KB