From: Rich Kilmer <rich@...>
Date: 2001-10-27T13:07:46+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23591] Re: Fast reply needed: class var trouble

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralph Mason [mailto:ralph.mason@telogis.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 11:42 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: [ruby-talk:23589] Re: Fast reply needed: class var trouble
> 
> 
> "Dave Thomas" <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com>
> 
> 
> > I'm wondering if you're talking from some bad experiences here, or if
> > this is an observation based on preferences. The reason I ask is that
> > I've been coding Ruby for a fair while now and I've never once felt
> > the need to declare variables. As always, I'm interested in other
> > opinions. But I suspect that this is a change you're unlikely to see,
> > as it would change the character of the language dramatically.
> 
> I'm not so sure that it would change the language much at all
> 
> something as simple as
> 
> var a,b,c,d #define some local variables
> 

Please...not "var"... 

I would rather just learn that in the context of a method if you need to call a method within your object that ends with "=" you prefix the call with self.  The rarity that this has arisen for me (with ~10k lines of Ruby so far w/heavy class definition, etc) seems not to warrant a change in language.