From: Benoit Daloze <eregontp@...>
Date: 2010-04-02T01:22:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Post-Condition if Statements And NameErrors

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> Something like this came up a few weeks ago. I think the parser is the
> one generating the NameError, because the parser only consider a
> variable to be defined if it sees an assignment to it, and such
> assignment has to come *before* any use of the variable. Even though
> the interpreter actually would actually execute y = bs first, the
> parser doesn't see it at the point where its value is used.
>

Yeah, that's a bit annoying and considerably reduce while-one-liners
possibilities:

lines = IO.read('mac.txt').lines.to_a

puts line while line = lines.pop

but that works if you assign anything to line before ...

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