From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2002-02-03T05:52:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Variable types

Hello --

On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, David Corbin wrote:

> I know I'm new to ruby, but I feel obligated to share my dislike for
> "special symbols" to indicate if a symbol is a member, local variable or
> global variable.  Perhaps I don't know enough to make such a comment,
> and someone will show me my mistunderstanding.
>
> Anyone else think like I do?

I sort of like $ for global variables because it makes it easy to
tell where you've used them and therefore need to rewrite your
code :-)


David

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