From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2003-12-01T03:20:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Class-level readers and writers

Hi --

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, ts wrote:

> >>>>> "D" == David A Black <dblack@wobblini.net> writes:
> 
> D> My least favorite of all of the proposed changes is definitely the
> D> @var/@_var thing.  It means that, for the first time, the concept of
> D> an instance variable will not be completely unified.  At the very
> D> least, I don't think something should be called an "instance variable"
> D> if it isn't private to the instance.  (And then there's that
> D> underscore.... :-)
> 
>  Well, if @_var make reference to what was initially, wrongly, called
>  "private instance variable" then renamed in "class local variable" then
>  it's private to the instance

I'm not sure I follow entirely -- which one was wrongly called that?  

(I'm just going by Matz's slide, where "instance variable" covers the
case where it's visible to subclasses, which are different instances.)


David

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