From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-03-09T01:11:24+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie question about scope, variables, declarations of variables and option strict (as in perl)

Hi --

On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, gwtmp01@mac.com wrote:

>
> On Mar 8, 2006, at 10:38 AM, dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
>> 
>> Weird.  I guess Logger does something bizarre in its constructor.
>
> At the top level 'self' references the same object in the file scope
> and in the method scope (really private instance methods of the top-level
> object).  Why then is it puzzling that the instance variables are
> accessible from either place?

See my last message -- for some reason I projected a class definition
body onto the example when I read it.


David

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