From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@...>
Date: 2002-02-03T10:41:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Variable types

At 6:47 AM +0900 2/3/02, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
>  "David Corbin" <dcorbin@imperitek.com> writes:
>  > 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.

I think it's a pretty reasonable idea.

>Two other comments.
>
>1. I don't dislike "@foo" in Ruby quite as much as "self.foo" in
>    Python.
>2. I dislike Perl's use of punctuation far more -- indicating not the
>    the variable's "scope" but its "kind." It is not only (IMO) far
>    more inflexible but also contributes to the code looking like line
>    noise.

I don't know python, but I definitely agree with the second point...

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