From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2004-12-08T00:46:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Freezing Variable Assignment

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 23:52:36 +0900, itsme213 <itsme213@hotmail.com> wrote:
> "Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote in message
> > In a Hash, foo['bar'] and foo['baz'] are not instance variables of
> > the Hash. They are indexed items to the Hash, for certain, but they
> > aren't instance variables in the least.
> If there is a standard Ruby term to describe what it is? Is "indexed items
> to the Hash" part of the Ruby model of what constitutes object state?

Simply "object state." Alternatively "members of the [Collection]".
They aren't instance variables, though, since that has a very specific
and precise meaning in Ruby.

-austin
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