From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2003-12-06T22:29:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Attempted roadmap of future instance variables....

Hi --

On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> In message "Re: Attempted roadmap of future instance variables...."
>     on 03/12/06, Chris Thomas <chris@m-audio.com> 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.

It could still be an argument against Ruby in the sense that it might
take away part of one argument *for* Ruby, in some people's minds, in
a situation like that.   

(Disclaimer: I don't actually know anything about the so-called "real
world".)


David

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