From: dblack@...
Date: 2007-05-22T21:44:30+09:00
Subject: Re: bug in ruby

Hi --

On Tue, 22 May 2007, sairam MP wrote:

> class Foo
>  attr_accessor :bar
>
>
>  def foo
>    self.bar = 1
>
>
>    if false
>      bar = 2        # never executed
>    end
>
>
>    p self.bar       # prints 1
>    p bar            # prints nil
>  end
> end

That's not a bug.  The parser sees:

   bar = 2

and that triggers the allocation of bar.  Since the expression is
inside of the if false block, it never gets executed, so bar is nil.


David

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