From: Andrew Chen <hangfei@...>
Date: 2008-02-22T05:10:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Where does instance_eval _magically_ set the variable to?

Jeri,

> How about:
> load 'param.txt'
>

Load doesn't get the variable into the current namespace.  Maybe I
used it wrong?

 >cat param.txt
name='John'
 >cat load.rb
#!/usr/bin/env ruby

load 'param.txt'

puts name
 >./load.rb
./load.rb:5: undefined local variable or method `name' for main:Object
(NameError)
 >