From: Lowell Kirsh <lkirsh@...>
Date: 2005-06-14T13:15:30+09:00
Subject: Re: are these the same?

Thank you both. Things are much clearer now :)

Lowell Kirsh wrote:
> I'm wondering about the difference between writing something like
> 
> @x = ...
> and
> self.x = ...
> 
> from within a class. Are they the same thing? To be more concrete, I 
> have given a fuller example below:
> 
> class Foo
>   def bar
>     self.x = 1
>   end
> end
> 
> class Foo
>   def bar
>     @x = 1
>   end
> end
> 
> 
> Lowell