From: GOTO Kentaro Date: 2002-09-14T07:23:11+09:00 Subject: Re: private variables At Sat, 14 Sep 2002 07:16:14 +0900, Tom Sawyer wrote: > what do you mean by nested local variable? is that suppose to be the > same thing as noninheritable instance variable? or are you refering the > other kind of "private" variables ruby already has? I meant change name. Not introducing other kind of variable. private local variable -> nestable local variable private instance variable -> noninheritable instance variable "private" sounds redundant and confusing, like "static" in C. -- Gotoken