From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-09-06T09:45:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby aesthetics

Hi,

In message "Re: Ruby aesthetics"
    on 02/09/06, Christian Szegedy <szegedy@nospam.or.uni-bonn.de> writes:

|What I really dislike in Ruby, that the data members are seen
|by the child classes. This is a very serious issue, and a claer
|violation of object-orientation.
|
|I think Ruby would be a much better language if the instance
|variables would only live per class and not per hierarchy...

It's in the ToDo list.  Private instance variables will be something
like @_foo.  But it's pretty hard to implement.  If someone come up
with a good idea, I'm glad to hear.

							matz.