Drawing a hierarchy w.r.t. class (instance) variables

Ruby
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Hi group.

Recently, I’ve read

http://www.visibleworkings.com/little-ruby/Chapter3.pdf
http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/Understanding%20Ruby’s%20Object%20Model/ChrisPine_UROM.ppt
and PickAxe.

I’m trying to draw a picture of hierarchy for the following:

class Foo
@@k = 20
end

class Bar < Foo
@j = 10

def initialize
    @i = 0
end

end

b = Bar.new

I understand how to draw hierarchy if it were not for class variables:

        Class
          ^
          |
  +-------+
  |       |
(Foo) <-(Bar)
  ^       ^ - Bar's class methods
  |       |
 Foo  <- Bar
          ^ - j and Bar's instance methods
          |
          b
            - i

In this picture parenthesis represents meta class. Upward arrows
represents ‘class’, while leftward arrows represents ‘inherits’.

But, I have no idead where the class variable k should belong to. k is
shared by Foo and Bar which menas that if k is modified at Foo, then
the value of k at Bar will be modified also. That being the case, does
k must be drawn under (Foo)? or Class?

Thanks.

  • Minkoo S.