From: Chad Fowler <chad@...>
Date: 2003-12-06T03:55:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Attempted roadmap of future instance variables....

On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Weirich, James wrote:

# From: David A. Black [mailto:dblack@wobblini.net] 
# 
# > Oh, not that it matters but I got that wrong.  Tied for *first*
# > with doing nothing.  @_ way down at third :-)
# 
# I tend to agree with this.  Having both protected and private instance
# variables is overkill and complicates the language.  If private instance
# variables are prefered, then make them all that way.  It will break
# portability, but we expect some of that in moving to Ruby 2.  
# 
# Besides, leading underscores are /ugly/.  Leading underscores prefixed by @
# are /very ugly/.
# 
# So, here's my vote to *not* have two different kinds of instance variables.
# 

+1 to having either/or private/protected (but not both).  And, I also 
dislike the @_notation.  

Chad