From: David Garamond <lists@...6.isreserved.com>
Date: 2004-06-08T18:55:08+09:00
Subject: Re: accessing class instance variable from instance method

Mehr, Assaph (Assaph) wrote:
>>My very small rant is, accessing class variables (@@var) from inside 
>>instance method is much easier and more straightforward; however, I
> tend 
>>to use class instance variable more often, since in Ruby1.x @@var is 
>>shared in subclasses (IIRC this will change in Ruby2). I've never find
> a 
>>use for @@var so far in my programs.
> 
> But you're trying to access a (private) variable on a completely
> different, and only vaguely related, object. Why should you have a
> "nice" way?

Then perhaps Ruby should not provide a "nice" way to access @@var too :-)

> I don't often use @@var either. I use a class instance variable only
> when it has to do with the internal mechanics of the object representing
> the class, nothing for the objects instanciated from the class top muck
> around with.
> 
> 
> 

-- 
dave