From: George Ogata <g_ogata@...>
Date: 2006-02-27T07:38:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Scope of constants in instance_eval

"Phrogz" <gavin@refinery.com> writes:

> Evaling as a string works. (Constant is resolved.)

But only in 1.9, if I understand you correctly.


g@crash:~/tmp$ cat test.rb
class C
  def initialize &b
    instance_eval(&b)
  end
  X = 2
end

C.new{puts eval('X')}
g@crash:~/tmp$ ruby -v test.rb
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i686-linux]
test.rb:8: (eval):1: uninitialized constant X (NameError)
        from test.rb:3:in `eval'
        from test.rb:8
        from test.rb:3:in `initialize'
        from test.rb:8
g@crash:~/tmp$ ruby19 -v test.rb
ruby 1.9.0 (2006-02-15) [i686-linux]
2