From: Bulat Ziganshin Date: 2002-11-14T17:38:07+09:00 Subject: Re: Another Newbie question regarding instance variables? Hello montana, Wednesday, November 13, 2002, 7:33:46 PM, you wrote: m> The value of an instance variable is only available to the instance of the class, whereas the value of the class variable is available to all instances of the class? Is this correct? m> If so the power of an instance variable is then to discern between make-ups of similar instances of the same class. m> Does this sound correct?? yes. while all people are mammals, they have different age, sex and ruby knowledge -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulatz@integ.ru