From: Mark Wilson <mwilson13@...>
Date: 2003-09-16T07:43:52+09:00
Subject: [OT] Aesthetics of @ and $; [Was: Re: performance and style advice requested]


On Monday, September 15, 2003, at 05:15 PM, Nikolai Weibull wrote:

> * 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?
> [snip]

lol. Aesthetically, I prefer @ to $. One is circular, the other is 
serpentine. One represents the spiritual, the other lucre. 
Aesthetically, I like a little humor in the threads.

Regards,

Mark