From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-10-18T12:08:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Have Ruby warnings about uninitialized instance variables gotten more verbose in the past year?

On Oct 17, 2007, at 14:50 , Bill McNeill wrote:

> I just ran the unit tests on some code I haven't touched since
> November 2006.  The last time I checked, the unit tests ran without a
> hitch, but now I'm getting lots of "warning: instance variable ... not
> initialized" warnings.  The warning looks legit, but I'm confused
> because I don't think I've changed anything on my end that would cause
> it to suddenly appear.  Have Ruby versions released in the past year
> gotten more verbose about this warning?

No.

$ ruby168 -wve 'p @foo'
ruby 1.6.8 (2002-12-24) [powerpc-darwin8.2.0]
-e:1: warning: instance variable @foo not initialized
nil

Maybe you added "-w" ?

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