From: La Wi <lw2011@...>
Date: 2011-12-10T06:46:43+09:00
Subject: Re: CONCEPT OF INSTANCE VARIABLE IN RUBY

To expand on the nice diagnostic suggestion in the foregoing post, x and
@x are not the same variable, and they do not have the same scope.

If your program consists entirely of this code:

   @x = 'hello'
   def printMe
     puts x
     puts @x
   end

@x is an instance variable of self (the Object instance that is your
program). It is visible to all methods of self.

printMe() is a method you've added to self. It can see the value of @x.

x is a local variable whose scope is limited to printMe(), and is
undefined.

(That, at any rate, is how I understand it.)

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