From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Date: 2002-07-16T07:57:16+09:00 Subject: Re: Execution question Hi, In message "Re: Execution question" on 02/07/16, "Hal E. Fulton" writes: |The only question is: Local to what? From its behavior, |it exists only within the scope of the class definition. |From my quick experiments, as I expected, it can't be |referenced from within an instance method of Test, nor |obviously from outside the class. It's local to the scope formed by class body. Scopes do not nest except ones by blocks. So it's just a plain local variable. matz.