From: Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality Date: 2007-12-11T01:05:04+09:00 Subject: Re: How much would variable declarations in Ruby make you wince? "James Britt" wrote in message news:475B7171.4010601@gmail.com... > Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality wrote: > >> >> ...obviously, this is a seriously contrived example but it should >> clarify my point. I so amazingly meant to assign to the pre-existing >> variable "list" but I accidentally created a new variable. It's not even >> typos with me. I often thought I named a variable something descriptive >> when I actually named it something else equally descriptive. This can be >> a >> surprisingly annoying bug to track... > > > How are you testing your code? The usual way: by running it?