On Tuesday, April 8, 2003, at 03:12 PM, Chris Pine wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Is this how this is supposed to work?
>
>
>   irb(main):001:0> class Foo; end
>   => nil
>   irb(main):002:0> foo = Foo.new
>   => #<Foo:0x400d7528>
>   irb(main):003:0> foo.instance_variable_set :bar, 15
>   NameError: `bar' is not an instance variable name
>           from (irb):3:in `instance_variable_set'
>           from (irb):3
>

But the instance variable would be called :@bar  :)