From: John Sikora <john.sikora@...>
Date: 2010-08-18T02:30:24+09:00
Subject: Re: question on if / defined?()

Rick Denatale wrote:
> Because x is defined, this happens at parse time so it doesn't matter
> if the assignment is executed or not.

Is this because when the parser sees 'x = ...',  Ruby automatically 
assigns a reference to the variable x?

It seems to me that this is the only way that this behavior makes sense.

js
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