From: Yukihiro Matsumoto Date: 2006-01-31T15:33:08+09:00 Subject: Re: Still $SAFE Hi, In message "Re: Still $SAFE" on Sat, 21 Jan 2006 05:11:16 +0900, Bertram Scharpf writes: |as many of you probably noticed, I didn't get an answer to |my question on Ruby-Talk: | | Sorry somehow I missed your posts. |Just let me ask it in a simpler way: | |irb(main):001:0> instance_eval { $SAFE = 4 } ; $SAFE |=> 4 |irb(main):002:0> instance_eval " $SAFE = 4 " ; $SAFE |=> 0 | |What is the fundamental difference? And why? There must be something wrong here. I will fix it, unless I've forgotten anything. matz.