From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-04-18T00:25:45+09:00
Subject: Re: private variables (again)

Hi,

In message "private variables (again)"
    on 02/04/17, Matt M Sykes <mattmsykes@yahoo.co.uk> writes:

|I find it *very* odd that private instance variables don't exist in
|Ruby, considering private/protected/public levels exist for methods.
|
|It just seems insane that @x in class A is ready to be trampled upon
|by any subclass of A.

It's in the ToDo list.  But it is little bit difficult to implement.
Stay tuned.

							matz.