From: Chris Pine <nemo@...>
Date: 2003-04-09T23:11:25+09:00
Subject: Re: instance_variable_set question

----- Original Message -----
From: <nobu.nokada@softhome.net>

> My basic confusion was that I thought the error was saying "`bar' doesn't
> happen to be an instance variable name in this particular object" rather
> than "`bar' is not allowable as an instance variable name, not now, not
> ever."

Isn't it fair enough?

  NameError: `bar' is not allowable as an instance variable name.

<other email>

  `foo' is not proper for an instance variable name.
  `bar' is not recognized as an instance variable name.
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Personally, the top one is my favorite.  The second one is weird english,
and the last one has the same problem as the current error message.

  NameError: `bar' is not allowable as an instance variable name.

Sounds good to me!

Chris