From: pjb@... (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
Date: 2009-04-02T07:19:45+09:00
Subject: Re: When to use instance variables @

Adam Gardner <adam.oddfellow@gmail.com> writes:
>
> I've often thought that the ruby would be just a tad bit cleaner if 
> local variables and implicit self method calls were distinguishable from 
> each other syntactically. Something like giving implicit self method 
> calls a bare dot prefix. I'm sure there are a lot of people who would 
> disagree, though, and it's unlikely to happen at this point regardless. 
> Ah, well.

You mean like that:

C/USER[55]> hello
1
C/USER[56]> (hello)
2


irb(main):260:0> hello
hello
1
irb(main):261:0> (hello)
(hello)
1

Ah, but for that to work, you would need to use a whole lisp, not a
matzacred lisp.

Have a look at http://clisp.cons.org/
               http://cliki.net/
               http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/

-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__