From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-09-16T23:46:07+09:00
Subject: Re: private variables

Hi,

In message "Re: private variables"
    on 02/09/16, William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@y.glue.umd.edu> writes:

|Well, will these localized/private variables make it into the next Ruby
|release?  Because there were some previous objections regarding the single
|leading underscore ("I have used leading underscore in my current instance
|variables"), or regarding the symmetry ("It will not look balanced"), will
|there be any vote on the format of the localized variables:
|
|    @_x
|    @__x
|    @_x_
|    @__x__ (ala Python ?)
|    (or some other second character indicator, such as @#x and @%x ?)
|
|Or will Matz decide on this?

I will.  Somewhere around "@_x" and "@__x".  I don't care about the
balancing.  Those who care may put extra "__" after varriable names.

							matz.