From: Dhruva Sagar <dhruva.sagar@...>
Date: 2011-01-02T15:14:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Undefined local var hash not trapped

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Object#Hash was a good indication.
in irb session, the IRB object #hash is executed when you type hash.

regarding strings, again, strings have a method << which is used for
appending. a<< hash will return in an error since hash returns a number and
it is very large to be converted to a char...

On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 08:40, RichardOnRails <
RichardDummyMailbox58407@uscomputergurus.com> wrote:

> On Jan 1, 7:24 pm, RichardOnRails
> <RichardDummyMailbox58...@USComputerGurus.com> wrote:
> > The following program:
> >
> > # K:\Analysis
> > # TestUndefinedLocalVar_hash.rb
> >
> > a = []
> > a << "xyz"
> > a << hash
> > a << undefined
> >
> > crashes on line 8 (a << undefined) rather than on line 7 (which
> > apparently appends a reference to the undefined "hash" to the array.
> > What causes this mythical creation of "hash"?  Is this behavior
> > defined anywhere?
> >
> > If it matters,  the following explains how I encountered this problem:
> >
> > I have a program which had been using a local var named "hash".  Use
> > of that name caused no problem.
> > However, I decided I should change the value assigned to hash,  so I
> > changed all references to it to "hash_string" ... all but one.  I
> > expected that after I made changes to the way hash_string was
> > computed,  my program would fail when the reference to the now-
> > undefined hash was encountered.  No such luck.
> >
> > Thanks in Advance,
> > Richard
>
> > HTH
> That certainly helps in that it shows me what Ruby was "thinking".
>
> RubyDocs shows that lots of class have hash methods (maybe because
> they all inherit from Object.)  I listed a few "uses" below but have
> adopted a new programming rule:  don't use Ruby method-names as local
> variables.
>
> Below are the few examples that seem pretty useless to me.
>
> Best wishes,
> Richard
>
> a = []
> # a = "" # Can't append hash to a string
> a << hash
> a << "xyz"
>
>


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Thanks & Regards,
Dhruva Sagar <http://dhruvasagar.net>.

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