From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2007-08-13T06:34:54+09:00
Subject: Fwd: Prototype (the real thing from Ara) problem.

Hi list

after my primitive research and my *very slow* implementation of
Prototypes I thought it would be a good idea to check out the real
thing and to link to it from my blog, turns out I cannot run it :(.
I got the same problem on Linux as on Windows with a Gem install 1.8.6 pl 0,
502/2 > irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> require 'prototype'
=> true
irb(main):003:0> p = Prototype.new{
irb(main):004:1* @a = 42
irb(main):005:1> }
NameError: `@==' is not allowed as an instance variable name
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/prototype-2.0.0/lib/prototype.rb:122:in
`instance_variable_set'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/prototype-2.0.0/lib/prototype.rb:122:in
`call'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/prototype-2.0.0/lib/prototype.rb:122:in
`__call__'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/prototype-2.0.0/lib/prototype.rb:151:in
`method_missing'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/attributes-3.5.0/lib/attributes.rb:55:in
`attribute_list'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/attributes-3.5.0/lib/attributes.rb:58:in
`__attribute_list__'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/attributes-3.5.0/lib/attributes.rb:58:in
`attributes'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/attributes-3.5.0/lib/attributes.rb:41:in
`attributes'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/attributes-3.5.0/lib/attributes.rb:15:in
`each'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/attributes-3.5.0/lib/attributes.rb:15:in
`attributes'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/prototype-2.0.0/lib/prototype.rb:122:in
`call'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/prototype-2.0.0/lib/prototype.rb:122:in
`__call__'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/prototype-2.0.0/lib/prototype.rb:169:in
`context'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/prototype-2.0.0/lib/prototype.rb:164:in
`each'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/prototype-2.0.0/lib/prototype.rb:164:in
`context'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/prototype-2.0.0/lib/prototype.rb:122:in
`module_eval'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/prototype-2.0.0/lib/prototype.rb:122:in
`call'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/prototype-2.0.0/lib/prototype.rb:122:in
`__call__'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/prototype-2.0.0/lib/prototype.rb:161:in
`context'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/prototype-2.0.0/lib/prototype.rb:68:in
`prototyping'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/prototype-2.0.0/lib/prototype.rb:41:in
`new'
        from (irb):3irb(main):006:0>
irb(main):007:0*
irb(main):008:0*
irb(main):009:0* quit

It is not an irb issue tested with a source file too:(

Did I do something stupid?

Thx in advance
Robert

--
[...] as simple as possible, but no simpler.
-- Attributed to Albert Einstein