From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-12-06T22:36:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Unexpected scope range

On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Paul Lutus wrote:

> I don't normally do this (it comes off as an empty appeal to authority), but
> please look at page 388 of the Pickaxe book, under the heading "class
> instance variables". The discussion is about what you have been calling
> instance variables, and I have been calling ... class instance variables.

No; the discussion is about instance variable that belong to class
objects (i.e., instances of Class).  Dave makes the distinction
between "class instance variables" and "regular instance variables"
for the sake of pointing up, ultimately, the fact that classes, as
instances, can have instance variables.

At no point does Dave suggest or imply that "class instance variable"
is an appropriate universal term for @this kind of variable.


David

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