From: MonkeeSage <MonkeeSage@...>
Date: 2007-12-07T17:00:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie ruby wonderment.

On Dec 6, 10:16 pm, araminska <n...@nowhere.com> wrote:
> > Ruby, like Perl, reads the code line by line, the same as you write it..
>
> Sorry, but I have to disagree. (That is, if you are saying that Perl has
> to have the subs first, also.  Not sure you are.)
>
> With perl
>
>   print_form()
>
> sub print_form {
> #... do stuff
>
> }
>
> works just fine.  I have always put the subs at the bottom and the calling
> code at the top.
>
> But you are right and I was wrong about Ruby.  Methods DO have to be
> defined before use.  Not sure what I did before to think they don't.  Perl
> and Ruby obviously have different compiling structures.
>
> No biggie.  I just have to remember that till it becomes natural.
>
> Araminska

Seems that perl parses the entire file first, before it runs any code.
In most interpreted languages (ruby, python, lua, javascript, php,
&c), the code is executed as soon as an expression is parsed, so it is
an error to call a function before you define it.

Ps. Hope you enjoy using ruby. :)

Regards,
Jordan