From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-03-12T07:05:45+09:00
Subject: Re: whats the error here?

On 11.03.2008 22:45, Adam Akhtar wrote:
> My IDE (aptana rails) seems to complain about syntax with this code
> 
> def initialize(size=2)
>     @size = size
>     @template = {'1'=> [" # ", "@ @"," # ", "@ @", " # "],
>             '2'=>[" # ", "@ @"," # ", "@ @", " # "],
>             '3'=>[" # ", "@ @"," # ", "@ @", " # "],
>             '4'=>[" # ", "@ @"," # ", "@ @", " # "],
>             '5'=>[" # ", "@ @"," # ", "@ @", " # "],
>             '6'=>[" # ", "@ @"," # ", "@ @", " # "],
>             '7'=>[" # ", "@ @"," # ", "@ @", " # "],
>             '8'=>[" # ", "@ @"," # ", "@ @", " # "],
>             '9'=>[" # ", "@ @"," # ", "@ @", " # "],
>             '0'=>[" # ", "@ @"," # ", "@ @", " # "]}
>     @numrows = @template[0].length
> 
>   end
> 
>   def HorizontalBarPrint chr,segment
> 
>     lcdchar = @template[chr][segment] #### DOESNT LIKE THIS BIT
> 
>   end
> 
> end

This bit of code has the alignment wrong and an "end" too much.

> Whats wrong with lcdchar = @template[chr][segment] ???

Nothing.

> Is it because @template is a class variable and lcdchar is trying to

For all that I can see @template is an instance variable.

> point to it thus allowing for the possibility of accesing the contents
> of the class variable from outside of the class??? All i want to do is
> to copy the contents to the variable lcdchar.
> 
> Anyone got any ideas?????

Please show the complete code and error message.

Cheers

	robert