From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2005-01-19T16:46:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Fwd: [suby-ruby] Your all time desired fundemental Ruby mod

Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> 
> class RadioButton < Button
>    # ...
>    self.background = RED
> end
> 
> p Button.background   # ==> RED
> 
> The change went up the inheritance tree. Is this what you wanted? (Maybe 
> it is, and I didn't follow the discussion up to this point...)

That is what I wanted, but now my head hurts trying to figure out why it
works :) Isn't RadioButton a separate object from Button, and as such
shouldn't it have its own copy of all instance variables?

martin