[ruby-talk:04164] Basic variable question

Hi folks,

I'm trying to figure out, well, where all the variables go when I
load a file.

If I have a file, test.rb, that includes a variable definition, such
as

  a = 10

and I then load that file from irb using 'load "test.rb"', can I access
that variable in any way?  I actually expected that to give me an error,
since 'a' isn't a global, but it didn't.

Clearly, if I used $a, I'd get a global variable.  But 'a' has to
go in some namespace, right?  If I defined a class in test.rb and
loaded it, the name of that class would be inserted into the global
namespace, but simple variables are not, correct?

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Johann Hibschman                           [e-mail]