From: WATANABE Hirofumi <eban@...>
Date: 2005-01-25T00:18:06+09:00
Subject: Re: This is wierd...

Hi,

sigzero@gmail.com <sigzero@gmail.com> writes:

> class Hello
> attr_reader :msg
> 
> def initialize
> @msg = "Hello, World"
> end
> end
> 
> h = Hello.new
> puts h.msg
> print "Press RETURN"
> $stdin.gets
> 
> hello.rb:2: formal argument cannot be an instance variable
> It is the same code except the spacing. What is the deal?

% ruby-1.8.2 -e 'def initialize @msg'
-e:1: formal argument cannot be an instance variable
-e:1: syntax error

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eban