From: ts Date: 2002-09-16T23:34:19+09:00 Subject: Re: private variables >>>>> "d" == dblack writes: d> Personally I'd be sad to see any more double punctuation variable d> semantics in Ruby (@@cvar being the only one I can think of). It's d> true that declaring things private (rather than tagging them as d> private with an underscore) means that one can't see privacy at a d> glance. But that's already true of private methods -- i.e., their d> names are not required to be different from names of other methods. In this case where do you store class local variables (i.e. what you call private variables :-)) ? Guy Decoux