From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-01-18T14:03:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Fwd: [suby-ruby] Your all time desired fundemental Ruby mod

Hi,

In message "Re: Fwd: [suby-ruby] Your all time desired fundemental Ruby mod"
    on Tue, 18 Jan 2005 01:06:06 +0900, "Daniel Berger" <djberg96@hotmail.com> writes:

|I vote for using a leading underscore instead of "@" sign for instance
|variables.  Perhaps a leading double underscore for "@@" (class
|variables).
|
|class Foo
|__var = 23
|def initialize
|_x = 1
|end
|end

Double underscores are reserved for "private" instance variables that
cannot be seen from subclasses.  Don't take this as a promise for the
feature.

							matz.