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To a newcomer, it's sorta nonobvious, however--it turned out the problem=20
was that I'd made a circular reference to 'values' instead of '@values',=20
and the fact that the stack was full of 'values' frames is certainly not=20
obvious from the above.
A good rule of thumb for avoiding this problem is to name your classes
and your variables after nouns and your methods after verbs.
So instead of having a method "values" that uses the member "@values" --
something pretty much guaranteed to lead to trauma at some point down
the road -- make a method "get_values" or "set_values" or
"initialize_values" or whatever that uses a member called @values.
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Michael T. Richter <
[email protected]> (GoogleTalk:
(e-mail address removed))
Experts in advanced countries underestimate by a factor of two to four
the ability of people in underdeveloped countries to do anything
technical. (Charles P Issawi)
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On Fri, 2007-31-08 at 10:35 +0900, Kenneth McDonald wrote:
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urned out the problem </FONT>
<FONT COLOR=3D"#000000">was that I'd made a circular reference to 'values' =
instead of '@values', </FONT>
<FONT COLOR=3D"#000000">and the fact that the stack was full of 'values' fr=
ames is certainly not </FONT>
<FONT COLOR=3D"#000000">obvious from the above.</FONT>
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A good rule of thumb for avoiding this problem is to name your classes and =
your variables after nouns and your methods after verbs.<BR>
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So instead of having a method "values" that uses the member "=
;@values" -- something pretty much guaranteed to lead to trauma at som=
e point down the road -- make a method "get_values" or "set_=
values" or "initialize_values" or whatever that uses a membe=
r called @values.<BR>
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-- <BR>
<B>Michael T. Richter</B> <<A HREF=3D"mailto:
[email protected]">ttmri=
(e-mail address removed)</A>> (<B>GoogleTalk:</B> (e-mail address removed))<BR>
<I>Experts in advanced countries underestimate by a factor of two to four t=
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(Charles P Issawi)</I>
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