From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-11-30T20:00:53+09:00
Subject: Re: anything disappearing from Ruby for 2.0?

Hi,

In message "Re: anything disappearing from Ruby for 2.0?"
    on 03/11/30, Florian Gross <flgr@ccan.de> writes:

|What about @@variables?

They will remain, although I have a plan to change the class variable
behavior.

|As I see it they're confusing a large amount of 
|new Ruby users and I don't see how they shouldn't be replaced with 
|simpler attr_accessors in classes instead. (e.g. @@foo would be 
|self.class.foo)

"self.class.foo" would not do the things I wanted to accomplish by
class variables.  They are global variables scope limited to
surrounding class/module.

							matz.