From: Pat Maddox <pergesu@...>
Date: 2006-06-23T06:27:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Why is "nil" being included in an array?

On 6/22/06, Matthew Smillie <M.B.Smillie@sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> It's the same bug biting you in a different way: this time, because
> #downcase! is evaluated before the call to #rename, it's modifying
> the file variable in-place, so #rename is effectively being called
> like this:
>
> File.rename('test', 'test')

I had no idea that Ruby evaluated it that way.  Thank you for this
detailed explanation.

Pat