From: Nikolai Weibull <lone-star@...>
Date: 2003-09-16T06:15:25+09:00
Subject: Re: performance and style advice requested

* Martin DeMello <martindemello@yahoo.com> [Sep, 15 2003 23:10]:
> > It just makes it worse.  The $ is ugly for a reason--the use of
> > global variables is discouraged.  The Ruby Way to do it would be
>
> Ironically, I find @var far uglier than $var - the @ is denser and
> blockier, so it takes up a disproportionate amount of visual attention.
you realize that you two are discussing which of Ruby's scoping
specifiers are prettier than the other, or?  this does not seem to me to
have very much to do with the original problem?  can't we please keep
stuff like this out of the threads?  it gets really boring following a
thread when it spans a myriad of subtrees of mildly related topics.  and
in any case, using a global variable seems to be fine in such a short
script, but should of course be an instance variable in any well-formed
code.  and, if you find the 'at' sign (@) to be too dense, using another
font, or creating your own would perhaps fix this?
	nikolai

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