[ruby-talk:01964] Re: Class Variables

On 16 Mar 2000, Dave Thomas wrote:

> "David Douthitt" <[e-mail]> writes:
> 
	[...]
> > But I ALSO want to be able to do:
> > 
> > fooey.setting1 = 6;
> 
> Ah-ha! In that case, you want to use attributes
> 
>   class Foo
> 
>     attr_accessor :setting1, :setting2
> 
>     def initialize
>        @setting1 = 2
>        @setting2 = 5
>     end
>   end

Are these not accessing Instance variables, not class variables? I assume
from the @ and that there is talk of 1.5.x introducing @@variables, that
these are not true class variables, allowing instances of a class to share
a variable between them.
> 
> 
> Dave
> 
	Hugh
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