Christoph R.
12/2/2003 5:11:00 PM
> -----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