From: Steve Litt <slitt@...>
Date: 2005-12-30T08:35:31+09:00
Subject: Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ?

On Thursday 29 December 2005 01:03 pm, James Edward Gray II wrote:
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> > class variable @wilbur,
>
> That's an instance variable, not a class variable.

I knew that :-) Skipping from Perl to C to C++ to Python to Ruby, I sometimes 
forget the terminology.
>
> As Austin taught us yesterday, it doesn't make the variable either,
> just some methods.

My understanding of Ruby is the getters and setters it makes make the 
variable, because the setter sets @wilber to its argument.

SteveT

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