From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Date: 2002-11-26T00:43:43+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 18811-18923

Paul Brannan <pbrannan@atdesk.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:10:32PM +0900, Takaaki Tateishi wrote:
>>   (4) The scope of class variables is restricted only within the class/module.
>>       All the subclasses can not access to those class variables.

> Does this mean that class variables are no longer accessible to derived
> classes?  Won't this break code?

> Paul

I agree with you, Paul.  I think this is fundamentally similar to my
previous proposal to make the scope of instance variables to be restricted
only within the class/module.

It is funny that in my simulator prototype while in derived classes I in
general do not access the parent's instance variables directly, I do
access the parent's class variables all the time.  So it will definitely
break my codes.... (ah.., really time to rewrite the whole thing in pure
C...)

Regards,

Bill