From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2006-01-25T18:14:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Trixy abbreviation

Andreas Farre wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> There's a thing that's been bugging me for quite some time now. If you
> read Programming Ruby's section about the object model you will notice
> that modules are included by inserting proxy classes between the 
> including
> class and its superclass; where the proxy class has an "iv_tbl" pointer
> pointing to the module. This is implemented as a struct-based linked 
> list
> in the interpreter, where the name "iv_tbl" pops up again. So my 
> question
> is: what does the abbreviation iv mean?

My guess is iv_tbl = "instance variable table"

-- Jim Weirich

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