From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-01-23T16:52:45+09:00
Subject: Re: POLS (with one case: "class variable")

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:26:39AM +0900, David Garamond wrote:
> Justin White wrote:
> >i'm guessing from those names, that your surprise is that class 
> >variables get inherited...
> >
> >why is this surprising? class methods get inherited, why shouldn't class 
> >variables?
> 
> i'm mostly concerned with terminology. when people wants "class 
> variable", they actually want "instance variable of class" in ruby.
                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
                                  class instance variable?
This is AFAIK the standard terminology:
 class A; @@a = 1; end                   # class variable
 class A; def a; @a = 1; end; end        # instance variable
 class A; @a = 1; end                    # class instance variable

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