From: Nospam Date: 2003-08-22T15:56:48+09:00 Subject: Re: Class variables - a surprising result gabriele renzi wrote: > the thing he's talking about is 'instance variables of Class objects', > they are impossible in java cause Class is not an object, but you can > ue them in ruby. Also not quite correct. A class in Java is an object. But you can't define variables or methods for the class (well you can define static variables and methods, but they are not really part of the class object, but you can query them using reflection on the class object). Regards, Peter