From: MikkelFJ <mikkelfj-anti-spam@...>
Date: 2002-08-16T22:56:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Thought question: Where does "new" come from?

>  For example
>
> pigeon% cat b.rb
> #!/usr/bin/ruby
> class A
>    class << self
>       @@a = 12
>    end
>    p @@a
> end
> pigeon%
>
>  with 1.6.7 the class variable is defined in the singleton class
>
> pigeon% /usr/bin/ruby -v b.rb
> ruby 1.6.7 (2002-03-01) [i686-linux]
> b.rb:4: warning: declaring singleton class variable
> b.rb:6: uninitialized class variable @@a in A (NameError)
> pigeon%

Actually I get "12" and no error using 1.6.6 on Windows.
In the following the ruby interpreter yields a parse error in class B at the
line @@a = "hello" in class B. I irb I get "hello" printed. At some point I
was required to assign @@a as in class C or I would get a not initialized
error, but I no longer remember how because now class C works.

Anyway I don't think I'll bother more with that before there is a 1.6.8
release for Windows.

puts "--- A ---"
class A
   class << self
      @@a = 12
   end
   p @@a
 end
puts "--- B ---
class B
end
class << B
  def hello
    @@a = "hello"
  end
end
B.hello
puts "--- C ---"
class C
    @@a = "hello"
end
def C.hello
    @@a = "hello"
end
C.hello