From: Vladimir Van Bauenhoffer <cluny_gisslaren@...>
Date: 2011-09-16T05:46:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Some newbie questions

alberto kaputchella wrote in post #1022215:
> Vladimir Van Bauenhoffer wrote in post #1022210:
>> I got some newbie questions which I would very much appreciate if
>> someone could answer (in a way that a newbie would understand):
>>
>> 1. What does @ mean in Ruby? Im sure I have seen variables like this:
>> @variable. A new datatype like the :symbol perhaps?
>>
>
> The @ means that the variable is an object variable, its scope is
> within, and is associated to, the current object.
>
> For example,
>
> class Person
>   def initialize(name)
>        @name=name
>   end
>
>   def say_your_name
>        puts @name
>   end
>
> In this class, you assign the name provided to the class to @name.
> @name as an object variable, is then accessible from any other method
> inside the object.

Thanks for answering that question. In Python (the only other language I 
know a little of) you dont have to do anything special with the name 
when you make an object. I wonder why it's like that in Ruby.

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