From: Steve Tuckner <STUCKNER@...>
Date: 2003-12-03T03:52:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Attempted roadmap of future instance variables....

This is not at all what I expected.  :-(

Are @_var variables just basically private instance variables (as in private
variables in C++?

Steve Tuckner

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yukihiro Matsumoto [mailto:matz@ruby-lang.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 12:20 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: Attempted roadmap of future instance variables....
>
>
> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: Attempted roadmap of future instance variables...."
>     on 03/12/03, Steve Tuckner <STUCKNER@MULTITECH.COM> writes:
>
> |OK so the jist of it is that @_var variables are stored with
> the class of
> |the instance but the class has no access to that. That is all. Right?
>
> No. @_var variables are stored in the instance, but they are
> accessible only from methods defined in the same class.
>
> 							matz.