ivar

It was clear enough to make Harold Lewis [4] and Ivar Glaever [5] resign in protest.

One of the authors, Ivar Jacobson, is behind UML (together with Grady Booch & James Rumbaugh).

It combined the methodologies of many of the leading OO proponents of the time, including Grady Booch, Ivar Jacobson, and James Rumbaugh.

Like retaining self implicitly because of an ivar in a block...

Also, adding a controller ivar/property is rather invasive, don't you think?

Reflection: Duplicate all ivar definitions in several places (if you control all the code) / create a new C++ parser (!) in order to add the feature to the language (if you don't).

And AppCode is smart enough to try to preserve natural flow of words - if the function is called saveContent:toFile, when I reorder params it will become saveToFile:content: * Refactoring - easy promotion from ivar to property.

That's why we have MVar and TVar (STM) and IVar and locks/semaphores and unbounded channels and bounded channels and software transactional channels and green threads and Async and OS threads… You're going to see what Erlang did atomized, implemented piecemeal, and reconstructed.

You also do not need the initial ivar "definition" as ruby defines them on the fly when they are first referenced.

I recall writing a mandelbrot program on my Casio (in the awful Casio basic) in the late 90s, after reading Ivar Peterson's "The Mathematical Tourist" (actually started with Sierpinski Gasket variations, as that is much easier, not to mention faster).

Physics Nobel Laureate Ivar Giaever quit the American Physical Society, saying “In the APS it is ok to discuss whether the mass of the proton changes over time and how a multi-universe behaves, but the evidence of global warming is incontrovertible?” The Climate Gate scandal showed irrefutably that prominent scientists in the climate research community conspired to spike the publication of dissenting scientists.