From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata Date: 2002-09-27T02:35:42+09:00 Subject: Re: adding overload to ruby If private variables aren't really going to solve anything, why was then Matz really considering it? Regards, Bill ===================================================================== MikkelFJ wrote: > Private variables aren't really going to solve anything - if you have > programmers that think it is OK to circument all modularization just because > they can, you've got a problem at a different level. It's no so much private > variables as the possibility to inject a new method into a class that > worries me in this respect - but normally you don't drive in the wrong side > of the road just because you can.