From: Joao Pedrosa <joaopedrosa@...>
Date: 2005-05-05T01:16:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug or on purpose?

Hi,

> Additional note: 1.8.2 doesn't show this behavior.  But: never trust IRB
> when it comes to local variables.  Did you also try that in a script or
> with ruby -e '...'?

dewd@heaven:~ $ ruby -e "def foo s; 'bar'; end; foo = foo('z')"
-e:1: undefined method `call' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)

This behaviour I encountered when I was trying to compile wxRuby on
Windows. :-)

Cheers,
Joao