From: Tomas Matousek <redmine@...>
Date: 2008-11-26T03:28:30+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:20093] [Bug #796] dynamic constant assignment

Issue #796 has been updated by Tomas Matousek.


The error is reported e.g. in this case:

def foo
  C = 1
end

>> SyntaxError: (irb):2: dynamic constant assignment

but is not reported if eval is used. This works:

def foo
  eval('C = 1')
end

The restriction is IMO unnecesary and should be removed. If there is a good reason for keeping it it should be consistently applied in eval as well.

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