From: rtilley <rtilley@...>
Date: 2006-03-15T10:03:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Scope of an @variable

Jeff Cohen wrote:
> rtilley wrote:
>> This may be wrong, but I like to think of @@ as a class variable and @
>> as a method variable. @@ is accessible by any method in the class and @
>> is accessible by the method only.
> 
> You're close. @ are instance variables.  Any instance method in your 
> class can
> access them.
> 
> (Maybe you're thinking of local variables, which are defined within a 
> method and are accessible by that method only.)

Thanks Jeff! That makes sense. I was confusing @ vars with local vars.