From: Leon Theremin <thephist@...>
Date: 2010-05-08T23:14:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Modify Class Instance Inside Another Class (scope problem?)

Josh Cheek wrote:

> You have an instance method called cards which returns an initialized 
> set of
> cards. When you say "p g.cards" at the end, you are calling this method, 
> so
> you are simply calling this method, so you are getting the returned 
> value of
> Game#cards, the value returned by the cards method that you have 
> defined.
> However, your @cards instance variable is initialized when you say
> g.assign_values, but that isn't what you are printing out.
> 
> To see the difference:
> 
> g = Game.new
> p g.cards
> g.assign_values
> p g.cards
> p g.instance_variable_get("@cards")

So basically, my method was working as intended, but I was looking for 
the result in the wrong place. Seems like an obvious mistake (name 
conflict) to avoid now.

Thank you!
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