From: Kornelius Kalnbach <murphy@...>
Date: 2009-11-14T00:09:56+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:26727] Re: [Bug #2362] undefined variable has value?

David A. Black wrote:
> This is well-known and well-documented. It happens because the parser
> sees the expression:
> 
>   a = 5
> 
> and allocates a local variable for it.
You could also say that = is Ruby's "var". At least I understand it as such.

[murphy]