From: Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...>
Date: 2009-03-03T13:10:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Delegating class methods


On Mar 2, 2009, at 5:57 PM, Rick DeNatale wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Gary Wright <gwtmp01@mac.com> wrote:
>> It would be nice if there was a common term for 'instance variables
>> of class objects' but 'eigenclass variables' isn't it.
>>
>
> I think that the common term is class instance variables, i.e. they  
> are
> instance variables of a class object.

Sure that works but I also think it is the cause of some confusion
because 'class instance variable' is quite close to 'class variable',
yet (in Ruby) those are two very different things.