From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2007-05-02T00:43:04+09:00
Subject: Re: simple subclass question

On 5/1/07, Ball, Donald A Jr (Library) <donald.ball@nashville.gov> wrote:
> If I want a class and its children to have different values for the same
> class variables, how would I go about making that happen?
>
> - donald
>
>
Hi Donald, has been a long time...

504/4 > cat subclass-vars.rb && ruby subclass-vars.rb
#!/usr/bin/ruby
# vim: sts=2 sw=2 nu expandtab tw=0:
#
P = Class.new { @a = 42 }
class << P
  attr_accessor :a
end

S = Class.new P

puts P.a
puts S.a
S.a = 43
puts P.a
puts S.a
------>
42
nil
42
43

Hopefully I understood what you wanted.

Cheers
Robert
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