Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!purdue!gatech!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!gaynor From: gaynor@athos.rutgers.edu (Silver) Newsgroups: comp.windows.news Subject: Re: Class vars or Instance vars, conclusion Message-ID: Date: 14 Mar 89 11:18:05 GMT References: <102*knut-skog@rglab.uit.uninett> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 16 > My comments on this issue may have propagated some of my own confution. My > current understanding is that the values of composite instance variables are > shared dispite being an "instance". Indeed, I refer you to page 27 of The Red Book. This property is clearly demonstrated by the following example: 69 dup % ... 69 69 1 add % ... 69 70 [69] dup % ... [69] [69] dup 0 70 put % ... [70] [70] Regards, [Ag] gaynor@rutgers.edu [BTW, confution --> confusion, dispite --> despite; yes, English sucks.]