From: Christian Szegedy <szegedy@...>
Date: 2002-09-06T18:10:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby aesthetics

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> 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.

This seems to be mainly a name problem.

The names of the private functions could start with a
special character followed by the (binarily) encoded id of the class
(or mixed in module) they live in.

Of course to accomplish this, each method must know to which
class it belongs, but I think it's not so complicated.

Do I miss some particular complication? I don't know the internals
of Ruby so well.

Regards, Christian