From: Aristarkh A Zagorodnikov <xm@...3d.ru>
Date: 2001-06-07T15:57:57+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16292] Re: Timezone in Time::{local,gm}


	Hello!

	The following code does not work with new ruby (ruby 1.7.1 (2001-06-06)
[i586-linux] and even ruby 1.7.1 (2001-05-30) [i586-linux]).
It seems that parsing code was changed (I know about the {} definition
change, so I use latest CVS where it has been fixed).
It is errm ... frustrating, because I use code like that very often.

test.rb:
class Test
        def each(param)
                %w(a b c).each do |data|
                        yield param + data
                end
        end
end
name = 'str:'
f = Test.new
f.each name do |i| p i end

it gives:
test.rb:10: undefined method `name' for #<Object:0x40274b28> (NoMethodError)

but when line 10 is chnaged to:
f.each(name) do |i| p i end

it produces expected results:
"str:a"
"str:b"
"str:c"

I'd prefer the former parsing behavior bacuase this new stuff adds just a
lot of code to change for me, also with hard-to-find bugs (local variable
name vs name method which won't show up as error).

Aristarkh A Zagorodnikov, Lead Programmer, W3D Group
http://www.w3d.ru /// xm@w3d.ru /// ICQ UIN 36987938