From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Date: 2003-11-11T21:40:34+09:00 Subject: Re: Class variable and singleton problem Hi, In message "Re: Class variable and singleton problem" on 03/11/11, george.marrows@ps.ge.com writes: |.. but I'm afraid I'm still not clear on *why* this rule is used, in |particular how it helps to 'make scope resolution as static as possible'. |Could you provide an example? Consider @@var as global variable with limited scope in the surrounding class/module. matz.