From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2007-09-22T22:15:33+09:00
Subject: Re: question re: modules and class variable scope

On 9/22/07, David A. Black <dblack@rubypal.com> wrote:
> Hi --
>
> On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, Gary Wright wrote:
>
> > So despite the fact that class variables and instance variables both
> > use a similar syntactical sigil (@@ vs @), they are scoped in vastly
> > different ways.
>
> I honestly wish that class variables looked like $$this, rather than
> @@this. They're so completely unrelated to, and radically different
> from, instance variables, whereas they're much more akin to globals.
> The @/@@ thing has caused more confusion than anything else in Ruby, I
> believe.

I'm in no place to disagree with David, but I should point out that $$
suggests superiority over $ globals.

My one cent.

Todd