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[terranium]

Michael Neumann Wrote:

> Another example which leads to hard to read code and potential
> bugs is (ignoring compiler warnings):
> 
>      class A
>      {
>        int i;
> 
>        //
>        // add some 25 lines of code here
>        //
> 
>        void foo(int i)
>        {
>          // what is "i" here?
>        }
>      }
> 
> This is solved in Ruby by using a separate namespace for instance
> variables ("@i" for instance variable "i", and "i" for local variable
> "i").

In C family languages this is ruled out by naming convention.