From: Karl von Laudermann <doodpants@...>
Date: 2008-02-05T06:19:56+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby syntax question

On Feb 4, 4:01 pm, "gr...@spray.se" <gr...@spray.se> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While debugging some ruby-code, I found a mis-typed construct like the
> following,
> which looks like a syntax error to me,
> but when you run it in irb it evaluates to nil and does NOT raise an
> error:
>
> x = def
>  puts xyz
> end
>
> (where xyz is undefined)
> Anyone can explain what the above code means to ruby?

I believe that it is being interpreted as defining an empty method
like so:

def puts(xyz)
end

and assigning to x the result of the call to "def".