From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2010-01-13T01:06:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Using underscores for "private" instance variables?



On Jan 12, 8:48 am, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Jeff <cohen.j...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > But I haven't seen anyone else need to do this in their modules/
> > classes, so now I'm wondering - has anyone else needed to do this?  It
> > seems like this would be a common problem for any shared Ruby library,
> > so now I'm wondering why I *haven't* run into this before.
>
> As things get sufficiently, complex, I think that something like this
> might be reasonable.   Prawn is edging on needing some support for
> avoiding name clashes, since it carries a lot of internal state in the
> Document class and utilizes many mixins.
> I'm not sure if this is the convention we'll use, but it's one possibility.

I brought up using underscores a long time ago. :)

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/ruby-talk/2305779

Regards,

Dan