From: dblack@...
Date: 2003-10-03T01:19:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Instance- and class-variables (was Re: mixing in class methods)

Hi --

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 dblack@superlink.net wrote:

> Another way to look at it is that Matz clearly wants these two very
> different things to exist, so if @@var were an alias for class <<
> self; @var; end, there would presumably be something else ($$var or
> ^^var or whatever) to represent class variables.  So then the question
> would arise again: should ^^var be equivalent to class << self; @var;
> end, and so on infinitely.  I guess the @-similarity leads more quickly
> to this kind of question than might be the case otherwise, but it's
> really just a cosmetic detail.

And of course the fact that it might actually be self.class.class_eval
{ @var } also reminds us that there's no natural mapping between
these things :-)


David

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