From: Omar Campos <hypermeister@...>
Date: 2009-12-18T12:18:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Simple input problem

Omar Campos wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
>   Somehow the following always worked for me before, but tonight, it
> failed, and I don't understand why:
> 
> gets a
> 
> It's a simple gets command!  For some reason when I press Enter, the
> cursor just stays there, waiting for more input.  What can this be?
> Also, I can't do gets a, if I haven't assigned a value to a yet.  How is
> that possible?  I thought I could use ruby variables without declaring
> them first!  Please help, it's frustrating to get stuck on something so
> basic!

Never mind!  I was doing it wrong,  it is

a = gets

!!
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