From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2001-10-26T00:22:29+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23304] Re: why the @ s ?

>>>>> "T" == Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com> writes:

T> It's no class, and all three variables are declared @ the toplevel, so I 
T> thought the @ signs are not necessary. (The vars are no instance vars, 
T> and they are not declared inside control structures that would limit 
T> their scope)

 You have always a class in ruby, for example when you write (at the
 toplevel) 

  def tt()
  end

 you have defined a method for the class Object

 This is the same for variables

 @var, at the toplevel, is an instance variable for an object of Object.

 If you remove `@' ruby will search for a local variable, or a method of
 Object 



Guy Decoux