From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2007-01-19T22:30:44+09:00
Subject: Re: auto assign arguments?

Hi,

In message "Re: auto assign arguments?"
    on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:15:33 +0900, "Robert Dober" <robert.dober@gmail.com> writes:
|Right now you can *already* write code like this
|
|class B
|    attr_reader :a
|    define_method :initialize do |@a| ; end
|end

|I feel that this is worth another shot, maybe Matz could tell us to stop
|working on this if he really does not like it.
|It seems reasonable to assume that the reasons he had to reject the RCR do
|not exist anymore or that he has changed his mind, no?

I haven't changed my mind (yet).  And I even disallowed above code in
1.9.  Block parameters should only be local variables (and they are
effective only inside the block).

							matz.