From: Christoph Rippel Date: 2000-12-20T08:03:35+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:7719] Re: (Maybe) a correction for Programming Ruby >I don't believe that modules have instance variables. Instead, >instance variables spring in to existence in the context in which they >are used. Thus if a module has a function that references an instance >variable, and that module is included in a class, objects of that >class will have the variable My own example module Mod @inst .. def ins @ins # ops forget the "t" - sloppy as usual end ... end proves you are right. Christoph