From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2001-08-11T23:20:06+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19530] Re: the way class variables work

>>>>> "D" == David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> writes:

D> But I'm still baffled, maybe more than ever, by the "why", that is,
D> why class variables exist at all in Ruby.  No one seems to have
D> anything good to say about them.  They seem to operate as a kind of
D> not-quite-global global.

 This will probably not reply to your question, but initially they were
 called "shared variable" (rb_shared_variable_declare)


Guy Decoux