Var scope question

Is it correct to say that class variables ‘@@’ are similar to globals in
that they are global to their class?

Hi –

On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, rtilley wrote:

Is it correct to say that class variables ‘@@’ are similar to globals in that
they are global to their class?

Their class, and subclasses of their class. They’re pretty
global-ish. That’s scheduled to be fixed^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hchange in Ruby
2.0, when they’ll be visible only to their class/module and the
instance methods inside it (as I understand Matz’s description).

David


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[email protected] wrote:

Their class, and subclasses of their class. They’re pretty
global-ish. That’s scheduled to be fixed^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hchange in Ruby
2.0, when they’ll be visible only to their class/module and the
instance methods inside it (as I understand Matz’s description).

OK, thanks… about the time I fully understand it… things will
probably change :slight_smile:

unknown wrote:

Hi –
global-ish. That’s scheduled to be fixed^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hchange in Ruby
2.0, when they’ll be visible only to their class/module and the
instance methods inside it (as I understand Matz’s description).

Any sense of when 2.0 might be released?

Jeff