From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-11-08T03:14:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Making Instace Variables Private/Local

Hi,

In message "Making Instace Variables Private/Local"
    on 02/11/07, William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@y.glue.umd.edu> writes:

|If you are still considering to use '@_var' or '@__var' to create class
|private/local variables, are you open to the idea of simply making all
|instance variables private?  The descendant classes then can access the
|instance variables using 'self.var', where the method 'var' can either be
|public or protected.

I am not brave enough to introduce such incompatibility.  I guess more
than 60% of Ruby programs will not run after such change.

							matz.