From: Tom Sawyer Date: 2002-08-12T19:34:18+09:00 Subject: Re: ambiguity between local variable assignment and writter method On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 04:07, Justin Johnson wrote: > > By hiding them you'll make large bodies of code less readable and allow > people to adopt non-standard solutions to variable naming. This is > something I know from experience. i too tend to think that it is better to have these then not, even though i understand how they can be viewed as junky, read perly ;-) curious to know your take on having local variables prefixed as well. def how(%do, %you) %feel = 'about local variables' %with = 'prefixes' puts "#{%do} #{%you}?" end :-) -- ~transami