From: "Jan E." Date: 2012-05-11T20:56:15+09:00 Subject: Re: passing via instance variable or regular () By the way: This kind of value passing doesn't even work in most other languages, because it depends on Ruby's feature of dynamicly created instance variables. This isn't necessarily an argument against it, but it shows that the idea is rather odd. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.