From: Christoph <chr_mail@...>
Date: 2003-12-05T09:17:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Attempted roadmap of future instance variables....

ts wrote:
...
>  Well, my example can be re-written like this
> 
>    class A
>       def self.set
>          @m = 'A::m'
>          @_m = 'A::_m'
>       end
> 
>       def self.get
>          p @m, @_m
>       end
>    end
> 
>    class B < A
>       def self.set
>          @m = 'B::m'
>          @_m = 'B::_m'
>       end
> 
>       def self.get
>          p @m, @_m
>          super
>       end
>    end
> 
>    B.set
>    B.get
> 
>  This is because A::set was never called in B::set that I 
> expect that @_m  give nil when super is called

The more general question is if the "class localness" 
should be extended to singleton class sub-classing (in
your example the meta class of A and B respectively)
or if should be restricted to "regular" sub-classing.


/Christoph