From: Randy Kramer Date: 2007-11-09T03:10:44+09:00 Subject: Re: local variables, eval, and parsing On Thursday 08 November 2007 11:25 am, furtive.clown@gmail.com wrote: > 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. Ruby has a BEGIN {} (and END) block as well--have you tried that? (pickaxe2 pg. 318) Randy Kramer