From: Joao Pedrosa <joaopedrosa@...>
Date: 2005-01-24T23:08:43+09:00
Subject: Re: This is wierd...

Hi,

> hello.rb:2: formal argument cannot be an instance variable
> It is the same code except the spacing. What is the deal?

You are probably on Windows, right?

What version of Ruby have you got?

Mine is: ruby 1.9.0 (2005-01-15) [i686-linux] 

and I couldn't reproduce this error.

Cheers,
Joao