"Florian Gro <florgro / gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:d4093s$dml$1 / sea.gmane.org...
> why the lucky stiff wrote:
>
> > <http://whytheluckystiff.net/articles/seeingMetaclassesClearly.html>
> >
> > I'm hoping this will help uncover the truth.  If anything is unclear,
> > please report it.  Shed a light.
>
> Nice article, but I disagree in the point that @@vars are simpler than
> class instance variables. Class instance variables have odd semantics in
> the current Ruby which means that they will probably do some detail
> different than you expect.
>
> I've found that sticking to class instance variables (and thus keeping
> things simple -- why do we need another type of variables again?) helps
> in making code easier to understand.

+1

> Perhaps you should display both sides of this in the article.

Yeah, I missed that, too.  In fact, the article seems to discourage class
instance variable usage...

Kind regards

    robert