From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-12-06T02:15:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Attempted roadmap of future instance variables....

Hi,

In message "Re: Attempted roadmap of future instance variables...."
    on 03/12/06, "T. Onoma" <transami@runbox.com> writes:

|Wouldn't it be better just to have instance vars (@foo) local to the class. 
|Then subclasses and superclasses (and reportedly singletons too) would have 
|to go through accessor methods? Just seems like a simpler and more elegant 
|solution. Or is there a problem with this that I'm not seeing (besides "back 
|breaking" compatability)?

That would be interesting alternative idea.  I think it's matter of
how much compatibility we would preserve.

							matz.