From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2009-02-21T07:09:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Class variables are still inherited?

Hi --

On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, hut wrote:

> Hi ruby-talk
>
> It's said everywhere that class variables are not inherited anymore in
> newer versions of ruby. I experience a different behaviour, can you give
> me any hints about what I'm doing wrong?
>
> class Foo
>  @@a = 1
>  def self.moo() @@a end
> end
>
> class Bar < Foo
>  @@a = 2
> end
>
> Foo.moo == Bar.moo # both are 2
>
> My ruby comes from this package: ruby-1.9.1-p0.tar.bz2

For a while there was a change so that they weren't shared in the
whole hierarchy, but it got reverted.


David

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