From: tamouse mailing lists <tamouse.lists@...>
Date: 2013-02-04T17:24:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Storing string-data in a module

On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 3:43 AM, Carlo E. Prelz <fluido@fluido.as> wrote:
> You can directly use the instance's variable, like this:
>
>     def one(i = '')
>       @string+='<'+i+'>'
>     end
>
> @string would be owned by the instance of each class that included
> your module. But I think this last way obfuscates things a bit too
> much.

*Much* agreed -- this would result in, effectively, a side-effect, or
action at a distance, and create a coupling with the including class
that may come back to bite one.