From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2009-11-10T00:18:02+09:00
Subject: Re: TypeError: nil is not a symbol error when running tests

Arti Singh wrote:
> TypeError: nil is not a symbol error when runing test.
> 
>  Has anyone seen this error before?

Post the exact exception report using copy-paste, because it will 
include a backtrace, and the first line will give the line number where 
the error occurred.

If this is inside a library, look at subsequent lines of the backtrace 
until you find a line in your own source. Then indicate which line of 
the source code this is.

If I had to guess where the problem is, I would say

          getElementName(array,$s_name)

because you don't appear to have initialised the global variable $s_name 
to anything, and therefore this would be the same as

          getElementName(array,nil)

(@s_name and $s_name are two completely different things)
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