From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Date: 2003-12-06T22:10:39+09:00 Subject: Re: Attempted roadmap of future instance variables.... Hi, In message "Re: Attempted roadmap of future instance variables...." on 03/12/06, Chris Thomas writes: |Me too. It's hard to sell Ruby to others in an organization where |Python is the easy and safe choice. Adding "@_" would definitely be an |argument against Ruby in that context. I don't think so. Python has basically same feature. attributes with preceding "__" becomes class local in Python. matz.