From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2007-01-27T17:15:37+09:00
Subject: Re: [ ruby-Bugs-8174 ] Strange behaviour of iterator variable inside eval

Hi,

In message "Re: [ ruby-Bugs-8174 ] Strange behaviour of iterator variable inside eval"
    on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:50:09 +0900, <noreply@rubyforge.org> writes:

|This does what I would expect:
|
| [robin robin]$ ruby -e '[1].each_index{|i| eval "puts i"}'
| 0
|
|However, if I assign to i after the puts, i is equal to true rather than to 0:
|
| [robin robin]$ ruby -e '[1].each_index{|i| eval "puts i; i=1"}'
| true
|
|I'm running the 2006-12-25 build:
|
| [robin robin]$ ruby -v
| ruby 1.8.5 (2006-12-25 patchlevel 12) [powerpc-darwin8.8.0]
|
|I'm told that the code above works as expected in the 2006-08-25 release, so this looks like a regression.

It surely is a bug.  I will fix it very soon.

							matz.