From: Mike Stephens <rubfor@...>
Date: 2009-01-12T16:56:43+09:00
Subject: Re: How Ruby

 The good news is that the rules are pretty
> well-tailored to the actual programming needs you're like to have,
> which include wanting to write closures (so that the block captures
> the local variables from the scope of its creation)

Now accept that I'm talking in the abstract here (I've done very little 
Ruby coding), I would have thought that if you want to access data from 
another piece of code, you should call a method unless that target has 
been specifically declared as public or global. Ruby of course allows 
you to directly access data declared as private. These are examples of 
why I think Ruby is highly sophisticated and therefore has a potentially 
high barrier-to-entry. and in turn why I suspect the answer for many 
people is to limit yourself to a simple sub-set.

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