From: Sam McCall <tunah.usenet@...>
Date: 2004-08-12T23:47:42+09:00
Subject: Re: getting object attributes

David A. Black wrote:
> That will print:
> 
>   nil
>   nil
> 
> @goo and @boo are instance variables of the Class object Foo, not of
> its instances.
Rule #1 of this newsgroup should be: "Read the question twice" and
Rule #2 should be "test your answer".
The rules should be automatically appended to every post :-)
I looked at that and assumed those definitions were in the initialize 
method. To be fair, I'm fairly sure that _was_ the intention ;-)

>>   foo.instance_variable_set nil
> (You need two arguments for instance_variable_set :-)
comp.lang.ruby.instance_variable_set "@rule2" "test your answer"
Better?

Thanks for that, I think it means it's time for me to sleep.
Sam