From: Sean O'Dell <sean@...>
Date: 2004-06-08T23:32:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Interfaces and semantics (or, how to hashpipe a duck)

On Monday 07 June 2004 21:07, nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At Tue, 8 Jun 2004 12:36:28 +0900,
>
> Sean O'Dell wrote in [ruby-talk:102735]:
> > I'm writing a little lib in C to do this right now.  I'm mostly done.  I
> > am fighting with the Ruby C API's class variable access, otherwise I'd be
> > finished.
>
> See variable.c:
>
> VALUE rb_cvar_defined _((VALUE, ID));
> #define RB_CVAR_SET_4ARGS 1
> void rb_cvar_set _((VALUE, ID, VALUE, int));
> VALUE rb_cvar_get _((VALUE, ID));
> void rb_cv_set _((VALUE, const char*, VALUE));
> VALUE rb_cv_get _((VALUE, const char*));
> void rb_define_class_variable _((VALUE, const char*, VALUE));
> VALUE rb_mod_class_variables _((VALUE));
> VALUE rb_mod_remove_cvar _((VALUE, VALUE));

I have the docs.  What's wrong is, in an instance method, I can't seem to 
access the class variable from the C API.  In Ruby, instance methods can see 
the instance variables just fine, so I know that part of my code is working 
with them right.

	Sean O'Dell