From: ts Date: 2003-06-25T19:47:23+09:00 Subject: Re: protect parents from children >>>>> "S" == Simon Strandgaard <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@sneakemail.com> writes: S> I fell into these pitfalls yesterday.. that a child was modifying a parent! You make a confusion : the child was not modifying the parent. An instance variable belongs to an object (i.e. B.new in your case). S> class A [...] S> B.new.test1 S> B.new.test2 add this p B.new.value and you'll have [1, 2, 3] Guy Decoux