From: mental@...
Date: 2006-03-01T01:13:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Subclassing Struct.new

Quoting chiaro scuro <kiaroskuro@gmail.com>:

> I believe we can do without this style, because the rationale to
> support it (without looking at the implementation details) is a
> defensive programming argument.

But do we really want a situation where the names of local variables
become important to the external interface of a class?

If some mixin adds a method with the same name as a local variable
somewhere, we don't want things to suddenly break.

I think a better solution would be requiring explicit variable
declarations.  Let variables be unambiguously variables.

The implementation details would hairy too though.

-mental