From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2009-10-11T04:10:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Class Level inheritable attributes - are we there yet?

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Hi --

On Sun, 11 Oct 2009, dreamcat four wrote:

> The problem with class variables in Ruby, is that a class variable is
> the same object across all subclasses of a class. This is in my
> opinion almost never what you’d want. More probable is that you’d want
> the individual class instance to have an accessor. (Remember classes
> are objects in Ruby).

Oh, there are lots of problems with class variables :-) I didn't
mention them. Was there something in my post that made it sound like I
was suggesting class variables?


David

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