From: Navindra Umanee <navindra@...>
Date: 2005-03-31T08:22:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Defining a Class Accessor

Florian Gross <flgr@ccan.de> wrote:
> I thought the original post would answer that well enough already, but 

Well, someone clarified what the problem was...  he was assigning to
the class variables for Module instead of for the class itself.  I
guess "self" is what is confusing.

> in my own Ruby experience I have so far being surprised when using them. 
> Why should they be used when you can use far simpler constructs with 
> clearer rules?

Well, the idea is to have shared storage for all objects of a
particular class, right?  Class variables fit exactly that
requirement.  I'm not sure which simpler constructs you're referring
to in this context...  but perhaps I'm still too much in the Java
mindset.

Cheers,
Navin.