Issue #5825 has been updated by Matthew Kerwin. Does anyone have a link to discussions/logs that lead to the decision to remove instance/global variables from block parameters? ---------------------------------------- Feature #5825: Sweet instance var assignment in the object initializer https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/5825#change-45776 * Author: Gosha Arinich * Status: Assigned * Priority: Normal * Assignee: Yukihiro Matsumoto * Category: syntax * Target version: Next Major ---------------------------------------- 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: ~~~ruby class Me def initialize(@name, @age, @location); end end ~~~ So we can declare `@variable`s in the initializer method parameters definition to avoid assigning instance variables from method arguments by hand, like: ~~~ruby 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/