>>>>> "D" == David A Black <dblack / wobblini.net> writes: D> My least favorite of all of the proposed changes is definitely the D> @var/@_var thing. It means that, for the first time, the concept of D> an instance variable will not be completely unified. At the very D> least, I don't think something should be called an "instance variable" D> if it isn't private to the instance. (And then there's that D> underscore.... :-) Well, if @_var make reference to what was initially, wrongly, called "private instance variable" then renamed in "class local variable" then it's private to the instance Guy Decoux