From: David Douthitt <DDouthitt@...>
Date: 2000-03-17T07:30:43-06:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01966] Re: Class Variables

| In message "[ruby-talk:01934] Re: Class Variables"
|     on 00/03/16, "David Douthitt" <DDouthitt@cuna.com> writes:
| 
| |However, if you rename "startup" to "startup?" it fails with:
| |
| |  ./ruby.functions:46: parse error
| |        @startup? = TRUE
| 
| |The question, then, of course, is why?
| 
| Instance variable names should be in the pattern of /^@[a-zA-Z0-9_]+/.
| `?' is not among them.

I looked in the manual for where it said what variable names could be.
I couldn't find it anywere.  Can we add the name requirements
to the manual?  For ALL identifiers: class, variables, methods, etc.