From: furtive.clown@...
Date: 2007-11-09T01:25:06+09:00
Subject: Re: local variables, eval, and parsing

val = 44
p val  # => 44
p val() # => 12

So this "solution" is not too great.  I made the writer private but
that doesn't help since the local declaration apparently takes
precedence.

As explained in the links I gave, the problem is due to the
determination of local variables at compile time.  Really all that is
needed is a way to insert code before parsing, like perl's BEGIN block.