From: Kent Sibilev <ksruby@...>
Date: 2005-05-31T04:37:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Local variables and functions

Your local variables always hide methods with the same name. In order
to call a method instead of accessing a variable you should provide
some hints to Ruby like use parentheses () or access a method
explicitly through self.method_name.

Kent.

On 5/30/05, Robert Mannl <ro@cayoparaiso.com> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I got one question. While I was coding a method earlier today, and that
> method had lots of local variables, I was thinking:
> 
> "What happens when I introduce a new method sometime in the future,
> while adding features to my program? That may lead to name clashes"
> 
> For example, lets say I use the local variable "ids" in a method - as
> soon as I introduce a method called ids into the class, or a mixin of
> that class - whatever - the program breaks! And it's not easy to avoid
> that..
> 
> Am I missing something here?
> 
> Thanks :)
> 
> 
> Rob
> 
> PS: btw I'm getting some spam to my brand new email address (this one
> I'm using) - I searched the web for my email address and an archive of
> this Ruby mailing list --  shouldn't that be avoided? Posting emails on
> the web I mean  --- it's not a big problem though, as this email is not
> very important. Just curious
> 
>