From: Curt Sampson <cjs@...>
Date: 2005-04-13T15:27:17+09:00
Subject: Re: [curiousity] why aren't declarations just syntactic sugar?

On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Jon Raphaelson wrote:

> Both of those will produce the output
> Oh yes!

You and I must be using different versions of ruby:

     $ cat z.rb
     module Foo
 	def do_me_harder
 	    puts "Oh yes!"
 	end
 	do_me_harder
     end
     $ ruby z.rb
     z.rb:5: undefined local variable or method `do_me_harder' for Foo:Module (NameError)

Whereas:

     $ cat z1.rb
     def do_me_harder
 	puts "Oh yes!"
     end
     do_me_harder
     $ ruby z1.rb
     Oh yes!

Now care to try again with an explanation?

Two notes on the previous post, BTW. First the doubled "puts" was not
intentional; just me typing without proof-reading. Second, this may have
worked for you because you put both code samples into the same file and
ran them in the order I gave orginally, which was reversed from above.

cjs
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