From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-08-01T10:45:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Segmentation Fault - Ruby Garbage Collection

Hi,

In message "Re: Segmentation Fault - Ruby Garbage Collection"
    on 02/08/01, William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@z.glue.umd.edu> writes:

|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)"?

I could read your mind.  So I prepared you

  rb_define_hooked_variable(name, var, read, write)

But still, rb_global_variable is a different beast.  Unlike others,
its "variable" means "C variables", which is not seen from Ruby.

							matz.