From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Date: 2002-08-01T02:59:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Segmentation Fault - Ruby Garbage Collection

Dear Mr. Matz,

Thanks for the info (and also thanks to Guy who replied earlier).

I am just curious.  For the attribute, we have only a single function,
"rb_define_attr (variable, name, read, write)", and we can control
accessability using the read and write arguments.  Why for global
variables we have three functions with unsimilar names?

    rb_define_variable          - read and write
    rb_define_readonly_variable - read only
    rb_global_variable          - no read and no write

Isn't it cleaner if we also have only a single function such as
"rb_define_variable (name, value, read, write)"?

Regards,

Bill
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Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> rb_global_variable(VALUE*) is your friend.

> 							matz.