From: Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@...>
Date: 2003-09-16T07:48:00+09:00
Subject: Re: performance and style advice requested

Martin DeMello wrote:
> Dave Brown <dagbrown@lart.ca> wrote:
>>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.

Its ugliness is good too -- it is good practice to avoid accessing your 
own instance variables directly by using an accessor methods instead. 
If you do this, you get better code and fewer "@"s.  Sure, you'll still 
have more "@"s than "$"s, but dont think that "@" is good and "$" is bad.

Ben