From: Tim Bates <tim@...>
Date: 2003-01-23T22:52:53+09:00
Subject: Re: POLS (with one case: "class variable")

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 12:12 am, David Garamond wrote:
> as mauricio pointed out, i was talking about "class instance variable"
> (instance variable @var that is declard directly under the class
> definition, not under method definition). is this somehow inherited to
> subclasses too like a class variable (@@var)?

It would seem not:

tim@marvin:~$ cat b.rb

class Foo
  @foo = :meep
  @@bar = :moop
end
class Bar < Foo
  p @foo
  p @@bar
end
class Baz < Foo
  def test
    p @foo
    p @@bar
  end
end
Baz.new.test

tim@marvin:~$ ruby b.rb

nil
:moop
nil
:moop

tim@marvin:~$

Tim Bates
-- 
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