From: ts Date: 2003-12-01T03:25:31+09:00 Subject: Re: Class-level readers and writers >>>>> "D" == David A Black writes: D> I'm not sure I follow entirely -- which one was wrongly called that? Initially @_var were called "private instance variable", but it's stupid because an instance variable is private to the instance. They were renamed "class local variable" to say that you can access this instance variable *only* in the class where this variable was created Guy Decoux