From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2004-08-12T23:53:51+09:00
Subject: Re: getting object attributes

Hi --

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Sam McCall wrote:

> 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 ;-)

I think it may have been... still waiting to hear from the OP on my
request for clarification :-)

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

Yes -- you're only one comma away from having it parse :-)


David

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