From: Marcello Barnaba <bofh@...>
Date: 2007-02-21T05:11:22+09:00
Subject: Re: adding local variables via block

Hi,

On Tuesday 20 February 2007 21:02, Patrick Hurley wrote:
> I am not recommending this, but you can force a binding into an eval.
> However, due to how the Ruby parser identifies local variables, they
> need to be referenced in "code" before you can use them normally.

my irb disagrees:

 vjt@neutrino:~$ irb
/home/vjt| irb(main):001:0> eval 'x = 42', binding
42
/home/vjt| irb(main):002:0> x
42
/home/vjt| irb(main):003:0> RUBY_VERSION
"1.8.5"
/home/vjt| irb(main):004:0>

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