From: Niklas Frykholm <r2d2@...>
Date: 2001-08-12T16:34:31+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19582] Re: Why not access control for instance and class variables?

On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 03:00:27PM +0900, GOTO Kentaro wrote:
> Recently, some possibilities were discussed at Japanese list.  The
> goal is to avoid unexpected name confliction.
> 
>  (0) All @variable should be private (my opinion, but this has been
>      rejected because of backward comptibility).
> 
>  (1) Gentlemen's agreement; a kind of special name should be given to
>      instance variables which is intended to be private. 
> 
>  (2) Mangling feature something like Python's way may help the above. 
>      In this case we would adopt new prefix, e.g., @_, for private.  

What about using Module#private to explicitly declare private variables.
Since we already have @private it seems confusing to introduce a second
mechanism to do something similar.

// Niklas