From: "shortcutter@..." <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2006-09-15T12:35:56+09:00
Subject: Re: script local variables - the root of all mystery?


Jason Dusek wrote:
> I have a script with top level variables in it (i.e - variables that
> are not declared within a block, function definition or class
> definition). When I run this script through irb with load, I can
> access the variables just as though I had defined them in irb. Cool!
>
> Then I added a true global variable - $opts - to my script. I run it
> through irb and, lo and behold, I can't get at those top level
> variables anymore. What happenned? Did declaring the global variable
> somehow sink my script into its own context?

I cannot exactly tell what went wrong in your case but I do know that
IRB cannot be trusted once local variables are involved.

Maybe post the script so we get a better impression of what is going
on?

Kind regards

robert