From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-03-10T08:13:45+09:00
Subject: Re: globals outside of OO scripting


On Mar 9, 2006, at 3:38 AM, rtilley wrote:

> Logan Capaldo wrote:
>
>> Depends. Why are you accessing it outside the class? If its to  
>> change its value, than thats probably not a good idea and that  
>> functionality should be put into a method. Of course if its really  
>> a constant, well then its ok.
>
> It's a filepath (c:\name_of_file) I only wanted to define the path  
> once and be able to read it inside and outside the class. I am not  
> changing it.
>

Hmm, this makes me wonder if maybe your class should look like this:

class NeedsAPath
    def initialize(path, ...)
          @path = path
           ...
   end
   ...
end

...

obj = NeedsAPath.new('c:\name_of_file')