From: Albert Wagner <alwagner@...>
Date: 2002-09-06T11:08:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby aesthetics

On Thursday 05 September 2002 12:08 pm, Christian Szegedy wrote:
<snip>
> 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...
>

I don't understand what is bad about this.  I typically depend on instance 
variables in the parent(s) being directly accesssible.

> (It seems that Pyhton is even werse in this regard...)
>
> Best Regards,
> Christian