From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2006-08-06T14:01:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Inheritance with class-variables

On 8/5/06, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I think this behavior has changed for 1.9.

Has the behavior (i.e. class variables are shared between classes and
their subclasses) changed, or just the access control to the
variables.

In 1.8 class variables can be accessed anywhere in the containing
module or class. The pickaxe says that 1.9 will make them private to
the class which contains them, but that still means that they are
accessible to subclasses.

The distinction between class variables, and class instance variables
is shared with, and perhaps inspired by Smalltalk by the way.


-- 
Rick DeNatale