From: Christoph <chr_mail@...>
Date: 2003-12-03T02:10:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Attempted roadmap of future instance variables....

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David A. Black [mailto:dblack@wobblini.net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, 02 December, 2003 05:56 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: Attempted roadmap of future instance variables....
> 
> Hi --
> 
> On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Steve Tuckner wrote:
> 
> > So what is the relationship between @_ vars and @vars that 
> are defined 
> > in a class context (if any)? Is this just to allow easier access to 
> > class local vars (that you can already define)? Does below describe 
> > the situation accurately?
> 
> I think that @_ and @ variables would behave identically when 
> it came to Class objects' instance variables -- simply 
> because you can't subclass Class, so the issue of whether the 
> same or an old or new variable is in use would never arise.  
> In other words, the situation exactly analogous to what I did 
> before would be:

Thank David for saving my a.. on this one - I apperent
I did not even read Steve's first couple lines and misinterpret
the rest accordingly - Anyway entirely I agree with your analysis 
- (okay I didn't read it carefully but it looks fine:-)


/Christoph