From: Justin Johnson <justinj@...>
Date: 2002-08-12T19:47:40+09:00
Subject: Re: ambiguity between local variable assignment and writter method


> 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 @.

Personally, I disagree.  I do a lot of C++ programming with large systems
and one of the first standards we adopted was variable name identification.

This is quite a common thing to do.  For example, our C++ classes are named
similar to Ruby consts, our class data members are appended with '_' .  We
use setter/getter.  And so on.

class TestClass
{

public:

    void            var( uint32_t Var );
    uint32_t      var() const;

private:

    uint32_t    Var_;
};

You get the idea.  I was surprised and quite happy to find that Ruby adopts
variable naming as standard.  A good idea enforced.

> So, while not quite junk, they are ugly, nececarry implementation
> details that need to be hidden as soon as possible :-)

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.

--
Justin Johnson