From: Florian Gross <flgr@...>
Date: 2003-11-30T11:34:38+09:00
Subject: Re: anything disappearing from Ruby for 2.0?

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Hi,

Moin!

> |Is anything disappearing from Ruby in 2.0?

> Candidates are: 
>   * Perl style variables
>   * ../... in condition
>   * regex literal in condition
>   * Prec module
>   * maybe a few other things I can't think of now

What about @@variables? As I see it they're confusing a large amount of 
new Ruby users and I don't see how they shouldn't be replaced with 
simpler attr_accessors in classes instead. (e.g. @@foo would be 
self.class.foo)

I also find the module-syntax to be quite counter-intuitive, because you 
have to do 'module Foo; class << self' to get real namespaces. I think 
there maybe should be a separate namespace-construct. I'd also like to 
rename 'module' to 'mixin', but that might be too radical.

I'm sure there's more that I'm not able to think off right now.

Regards,
Florian Gross