From: cldwalker <gabriel.horner@...>
Date: 2009-07-24T15:35:05+09:00
Subject: Re: thoughts on rewriting irb?

On Jul 23, 9:47 pm, Joel VanderWerf <vj...@path.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> ghorner wrote:
> >   begin puts "=> #{eval(input).inspect}"; rescue Exception; puts
>
> Do you want
>
> eval(input, b)
>
> where b is a Binding that was constructed before the loop? Otherwise,
> how will this support local vars?

Joel,
  not sure I follow. In mini-irb this works:

  >> b = 2
  => 2
  >> 'b' * b
  => "bb"

As does placing local variables before the loop being picked up by
eval. Could you elaborate?
Gabriel