From: gwtmp01@... Date: 2006-10-21T06:21:55+09:00 Subject: Re: metaprogramming surprise? On Oct 20, 2006, at 5:03 PM, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > I use them fairly frequently, and have never been tripped up by them. > They seem like a pretty straightforward idea to me. I tend to use > them > for "config-ish" things in the class, which would need to have the > same > value in all instances of the class. Is there a particular reason you chose class variables versus regular old instance variables on the class object? Is it just because the @@var notation makes it easier to access the variables (i.e., you don't need to define class level getter/setters for the class object instance variables)? Gary Wright