From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-10-16T20:08:52+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 18458-18504

Hi,

In message "Re: ruby-dev summary 18458-18504"
    on 02/10/16, Mauricio Fern�ndez <batsman.geo@yahoo.com> writes:

|If this is now considered "bad style", why was it allowed at
|the beginning? I thought that the current semantics were the
|result of a trade-off between expressive power/performance and
|inability-to-shoot-yourself-in-the-foot.

Because I was stupid.  This is bad manner.

|matz's latest proposal clearly showed that he thought that assigning
|to an external variable was justified in some occasions, and now he's
|kinda saying that it should be avoided???

I think I just said "it's possible".  But it doesn't mean it is
encouraged.  And I'm saying it should be avoided.

							matz.