From: Albert Schlef <albertschlef@...>
Date: 2009-02-08T13:46:34+09:00
Subject: Re: eval statement

Mike Gold wrote:
> The thing to remember is that local variables are always determined at 
> parse time.

Yeah. That's why debuggers list local varibales even before we arrive at 
the assignment to them.

> The contents of 'a=2' is not seen by the parser when the file is read, 
> so in the second case the 'a' in 'puts a' is determined to be a method 
> call: "call method 'a', then call method puts".

I don't think you are correct here. The string 'a=2' is first *parsed*, 
only then evaluated. If your theory was correct, eval('whatever=567') 
would have generated some error (because there's no 'whatever=' method).
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