From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2002-09-10T02:04:39+09:00
Subject: Re: scopes

Christian Szegedy <szegedy@nospam.or.uni-bonn.de> writes:

> Kontra, Gergely wrote:
> > Hi!
> > I've a question about scopes:
> 
> > @mail=Someclass.new
> 
> > @pass=Someclass.new
> > def @pass.check
> >   # how to acces @mail here?
> > end
> 
> 
> The instance variables are always private in Ruby:
> you can't access the instance variables of an object from
> a different object.

Except in his example above they're the same object.

   @a = 123
   def fred
      puts @a
   end

   fred     #=>  123



Cheers


Dave