From: Ari Brown <ari@...>
Date: 2007-04-30T11:22:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Class Level Variables


On Apr 29, 2007, at 9:03 PM, Gregory Brown wrote:
<snip>

> Please don't do this.  That assignment would happen every time you
> create an instance of the object, which completely defeats the purpose
> of class level variables. (Whether you use class instance variables or
> class variables).

So use @@foo for general ideas (like @@foo = {} and when used in some  
file.open(path, 'r') do ..... command) and @foo for variables that  
hold specific values?

Got it.

P.S. = Is there some site that has a bunch of secrets that everyone  
(but me) knows in making your Ruby code look like Ruby?

~ Ari
English is like a pseudo-random number generator - there are a  
bajillion rules to it, but nobody cares.