From: Mirko Viviani <furetto76@...>
Date: 2009-07-23T01:07:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Instantiating classes / sharing data between classes

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create a class variable?
@@modalities ?

p.s. don't know if ok...

2009/7/22 Trevoke <trevoke@gmail.com>

> I think this is what I want to do (maybe I'm thinking about it wrong):
>
> a =3D Doctor.new
> b =3D Doctor.new
>
> I want both 'a' and 'b' to have access to:
> modalities =3D ['US', 'CR', 'CT', 'MR']
>
> The array 'modalities' is not hard-coded, but generated from a
> database query. I don't want to query the database every time I create
> a new instance of Doctor - so how can I do it so that every instance
> of Doctor shares the same array, only created once?
>
> Is this the part where 'modules' and 'classes' come into question and
> interact?
>
>


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