From: Stephen Sykes <sdsykes@...>
Date: 2009-11-13T22:44:18+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:26723] Re: [Bug #2362] undefined variable has value?

It's normal, 'a' has been seen by the parser.  For more fun:

http://pennysmalls.com/2007/10/01/why-ruby-is-not-my-favourite-programming-language/

- Stephen

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Vit Ondruch <redmine@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> Bug #2362: undefined variable has value?
> http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/2362
>
> Author: Vit Ondruch
> Status: Open, Priority: Normal
> Category: core
> ruby -v: ruby 1.9.2dev (2009-10-15) [i386-mswin32_90]
>
> C:\>type test.rb
> if false
> �a = 5
> else
> end
>
> c = a
> d = b
>
> C:\>c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe test.rb
> test.rb:7:in `<main>': undefined local variable or method `b' for main:Object (NameError)
>
>
> From my point of view, the variable "a" was never reached. How that can be that it is later defined with nil value?
>
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