From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-09-17T01:51:34+09:00
Subject: Re: private variables

Hi,

In message "Re: private variables"
    on 02/09/17, James F.Hranicky <jfh@cise.ufl.edu> writes:

|Are we dead set against "attr_private" ?
|
|   class Foo
|	attr_private :bar
|   end 
|
|?

I'm not going to choose attr_private (unless someone put some idea in
my brain), because

  a) we need static information about class local instance variable at
     compile time.  Dynamic attr_priate at run time is too late.

  b) if we choose attr_private (by making it a syntax), we need to
     search for declaration to distinguish whether a instance variable
     is class local or not.  I don't feel it's a Ruby Way (tm).

							matz.