From: Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date: 2005-10-18T23:03:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Instance and class variable assignment

Selon Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@gmail.com>:

>
> Can someone explain to me why this shouldn't be implemented in Ruby:
>
>    def foo(@a, @b = "foo", @@c = "bar")
>      # do something
>    end
>

My eyes!!! >*_*<

>    # should do the same as this
>    def foo(a, b = "foo", c = "bar")
>      @a  = a
>      @b  = b
>      @@c = c
>      # do something
>    end
>
> I personally think it looks very interesting, especially since most
> initialize methods (at least most of those I write) just set instance
> and class variables.
>

I can see why you're interested (it shortens things quite a bit), but I think
it's a wrong idea. It's confusing to have method arguments that are not
method-local. Isn't that why the current behaviour of block arguments is going
to be changed? :)
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