variable conventions in ruby

[Pradeep bhatt]

I was reading a tutorial on Ruby which talks about variable name conventions such a class name variable must start with "@@". Why is this required .. why not let the developer to take the decision?

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

In Java, you always declare variables, and you use "static" to make something a class variable. In Ruby, you don't declare things, and you use naming conventions to tell Ruby what kind of a thing it is. Just how it works.

[Pradeep bhatt]

Thanks

[gao zhixin]

I think Ruby's name convention is better than Java