From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2007-04-15T20:24:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Idiom wanted (now hiring!)

"Robert Dober" <robert.dober@gmail.com> writes:

> On 4/14/07, Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> "Robert Dober" <robert.dober@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > You see it is not the isolated semantics of x=x, but the context of
>> > other semantics that disturbs me (well disturbs me just a tiny little
>> > bit ;).
>>
>> So you are proposing all undefined locals return nil too?  }}:-)
> No I am too young to die, because that means we need python call syntax
> for the implicit receiver, maybe you want some parens too ;).
> Beware I am writing this in the best intent.
> Ok fooled around enough.
>
> The real problem is the implicit declaration of variables of course.
> I feel that it should be hidden which means it should take place after
> the RHS evaluation, but in practice it takes place before.
>
> Well I can life with that :)

In my five years of using Ruby, this has bitten me maybe twice.

I think I misspelled "initialize" a lot more. :-P

> Cheers
> Robert
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