From: J J <jj5412@...>
Date: 2001-05-08T00:10:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14777] Completely freaky behavior

I've got a class that sets a variable in a method like so:
    @author = nil
later, when the variable is printed:
    puts "Author: #{@author}" unless @author.nil?
in fact, @author's value is "= nil"      ! if you print the length of
@author, it is 5!
in another method, author is assigned like so:
    when /@author\s+(.*)/
      @author = $1
guess what @author's value is? It is "= $1", the length of @author is 4!

WTH?

Any advice?

I've tried distilling it down to a minimal test, but can't. If you'd like to
see the whole thing, drop me a line.

Thanks,
  JJ

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