From: Stefan Kaes <skaes@...>
Date: 2005-05-31T18:30:28+09:00
Subject: Re: creating variable with eval

Robert Klemme wrote:

>Stefan Kaes wrote:
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>>Robert Klemme wrote:
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>>>You cannot trust IRB on local variables.  This too comes up from
>>>time to time in these circumstances... :-)
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>>Which means that irb has a bug that doesn't get fixed.
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>No, it's not a bug.  It's a conceptual thing that cannot be fixed: IRB
>must process Ruby code line by line while normally all the code in a file
>gets parsed and compiled into bytecode and then executed.
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Bytecode? Whishful thinking , I suppose.

Anyway, entering code line by line to irb should give the same effect as 
running the same code from a file. I don't know any interpreted language 
that would give different results for the interactive shell than running 
the whole thing from a file.

-- stefan