From: dblack@...
Date: 2007-06-02T09:42:13+09:00
Subject: Re: nested methods don't really exist?!

Hi --

On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Artur Merke wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've just encountered somehow strange (for me) behavior of nested
> methods in ruby:
>
> class A
>  def a
>    def b
>      print "bbb"
>    end
>  end
>
>  def c
>    b
>  end
> end
>
> irb(main):013:0> A.new.c
> bbb=> nil

I get:

   inner.rb:9:in `c': undefined local variable or method `b' for
   #<A:0x1ea244> (NameError) from inner.rb:13

with Ruby 1.8.6, because b doesn't get defined until a is called.

Can you reproduce exactly what you're doing, including Ruby version?


David

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