Who puts comments in their code? 
You’re absolutely right. I temporarily forgot about that. This is what I
get for working in both Java and Ruby!
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-----Original Message-----
From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata [mailto:billtj@z.glue.umd.edu]
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 10:35 AM
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Subject: Re: Too Many Underscores?Mmmm… and then how are we going to distinguish them from comments?
Bill
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Volkmann, Mark Mark.Volkmann@agedwards.com wrote:I haven’t followed the discussion about new syntax for
private variables
very closely, but I don’t like the idea of using leading
underscores for
them. I apologize if this has already been suggested and
rejected, but …What about preceding them with a pound sign? You could say
that the #
represents being “behind bars”, “in prison” and “locked
away from the rest
of the world”.
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