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From: mh@wlbr.EATON.COM (Mike Hoegeman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Class vars or Instance vars, conclusion
Message-ID: <28405@wlbr.EATON.COM>
Date: 26 Mar 89 21:47:46 GMT
References: <102*knut-skog@rglab.uit.uninett>
Reply-To: mh@wlbr.eaton.com.UUCP (Mike Hoegeman)
Organization: Eaton IMSD, Westlake Village, CA
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In article <102*knut-skog@rglab.uit.uninett> knut-skog%rglab.uit.uninett@NORUNIX.BITNET (Knut Skog) writes:
>
>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".
>

Just as an added note to this discussion, to make a non shared composite
instance variable for an object class just create it in the objects
"/new" method like this

/MyClass ParentObject
dictbegin
	% instance vars...
	% normally you would put MyNonSharedArrayInstanceVariable here
dictend
classbegin
	/new {
		/new super send begin
		   % we are the instance at this point...
		   /MyNonSharedArrayInstanceVariable [
			1 2 3 4 (five) (six) currenttime /whatever
		   ] def
		currentdict end
	} def
classend def

-mike