From: Anton 'tony' Bangratz <tony@...>
Date: 2006-06-24T00:04:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Warning message about "initialized constant"

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Peter Bailey wrote:

> This is part of a script I use that simply ftps a bunch of files over t=
o=20
> a UNIX server at my company. It does work, but, I keep getting a warnin=
g=20
> message from RUBY about "rb:20:warning: already initialized constant=20
> BWDFile". The line 20 it's referring to is my line 5 below.
>=20
[snip]

In Ruby, identifiers starting with uppercase are constants. Constants,
different from variables, are not supposed to change. Thus the
warning, because you try to use a variable as a constant

Additionally, camelCase is usually reserved for class names (as a
convention), it's considered better style to use snake_case, in your
case you are better off using "bwd_file" as the variable name.


t.

--=20
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