From: Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
Date: 2002-08-11T04:41:26+09:00
Subject: Re: ambiguity between local variable assignment and writter method

On Sat, 2002-08-10 at 05:26, Kent Dahl wrote:
> Dunno about George, but I consider $ junk and I am very vary of using
> @@. Ironically we're arguing about writer methods inside classes, which
> also distances us from the @.
> 
> So, while not quite junk, they are ugly, nececarry implementation
> details that need to be hidden as soon as possible :-)

just to throw this out, i'm wondering why placement wasn't used to
determine scope, just like when you have have variables defined outside
of a block, they are available inside of it, and not local to it. here:

globalvar = 'global b/c from top level ($)'

class X
  X.classvar = 'class var (@@)' # perhaps?
  instancevar = 'object instance var (@)'
  def x
    localvar = 'local to x'
  end
end

i hope no one thinks that i have been trying to push a notion i've had
about this, that's not modus operandi. truly i am just exploring to see
in what ways things might be improved whether that can reasonably happen
or not. for one day i hope to make my own language and in these
discussions i am learning much that i will be able to carry into that.

so, thank you!

-- 
~transami