From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-03-19T02:07:03+09:00
Subject: Re: var scope question

Hi --

On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, rtilley wrote:

> Is it correct to say that class variables '@@' are similar to globals in that 
> they are global to their class?

Their class, and subclasses of their class.  They're pretty
global-ish.  That's scheduled to be fixed^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hchange in Ruby
2.0, when they'll be visible only to their class/module and the
instance methods inside it (as I understand Matz's description).


David

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