From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-02-19T21:57:38+09:00
Subject: Re: If statement and if modifier not equivalent?

Hi,

In message "Re: If statement and if modifier not equivalent?"
    on Sun, 19 Feb 2006 21:39:04 +0900, David Vallner <david@vallner.net> writes:

|Dňa Nedeľa 19 Február 2006 12:58 Mark James napísal:
|> OK, thanks Sylvain.  But I would have thought that any examination of
|> the guarded statement would be delayed until after the condition had
|> been evaluated.  Is a parse like this possible?
|
|Personally, I'd be surprised if the parser paid any attention to much of the 
|semantics of the parsed text at all - that's what the interpreter is supposed 
|to do. The variable declaration checking at parse-time seems to be the 
|exception here.
|
|Syntax ge... gurus, feel free to elaborate.

Agreed with you.  But there's a vague possibility that this issue will
be solved in Ruby 2.0 in different manner.

							matz.