From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2003-12-06T21:59:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Attempted roadmap of future instance variables....

On Friday,  5 December 2003 at 23:15:46 +0900, David A. Black wrote:
> Hi --
> 
> On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, ts wrote:
> 
> > >>>>> "D" == David A Black <dblack@wobblini.net> writes:
> > 
> >  Change the way how work @var actually and you break a big number of
> >  scripts (and I know that if you introduce @_var, you also break some
> >  scripts)
> 
> True, but Matz also has emphasized that he's willing to break a lot of
> things at one time (2.0) for the sake of future Ruby.  Personally, I'd
> be happy to have instance variables stay how they are.  My second choice
> would be to choose one behavior or the other, avoiding @_ .
> 

This may be crazy (and stupid), but could the syntax be

  _@var

instead of

  @_var

-- 
Jim Freeze
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