From: "D. Deryl Downey" Date: 2013-04-29T07:08:35+09:00 Subject: Re: BEGINNER -CLASS QUERY Stu, thanks. I didn't catch that. Nice one! My apologies! -----Original Message----- From: sto.mar@web.de [mailto:sto.mar@web.de] Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2013 3:15 PM To: ruby-talk ML Subject: Re: BEGINNER -CLASS QUERY Am 27.04.2013 01:11, schrieb D. Deryl Downey: >>>> Sorry for the confusion. From my (obviously limited) knowledge of >>>> languages I thought that was a general rule. Let's change that then >>>> to "in Ruby, you don't declare variables...". >>> >>> Change that to you don't *have to* declare variables. "You don't declare" would be misleading. >> >> How would you declare a variable in Ruby? Do you mean the first assignment to it? To me, "declaring" signifies a type declaration like in C or Java. > > Yes, the first assignment to it. So "you don't declare variables" is correct, and "you don't have to declare variables" is misleading, since you *cannot* declare variables in Ruby :) --