Issue #5825 has been updated by ko1 (Koichi Sasada). Target version changed from 2.0.0 to next minor I changed target to next minor. I think someone who want to introduce it need to persuade matz. ---------------------------------------- Feature #5825: Sweet instance var assignment in the object initializer https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/5825#change-31674 Author: goshakkk (Gosha Arinich) Status: Assigned Priority: Normal Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Category: Target version: next minor I'm very excited about this feature in CoffeeScript, and think it might be a nice-to-have thing in Ruby 2.0. That's how I think it would look like: `class Me def initialize(@name, @age, @location); end end` So we can declare @variables in the initializer method parameters definition to avoid assigning instance variables from method arguments by hand, like: `class Me def initialize(name, age, location) @name = name @age = age @location = location end end` Want to hear what do you guys think, does that feature worth being included in 2.0? -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/