From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2002-09-17T00:50:29+09:00
Subject: Re: private variables

On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 11:50:54PM +0900, Christian Szegedy wrote:
> Private methods and class-local instance variables are quite different.
> If you use a private method, you get an exception. If you try to use
> a class-local instance variable then you just use another variable,
> which could lead to obscure bugs.
> So I think punctuation (and it should be as short as possible)
> is a much better option.

If you try to use a class-local instance variable and it has not yet
been initialized, I would expect to see a warning when you run with ruby
-w, just like you get now with regular instance variables.

Paul