From: Albert Wagner <alwagner@...>
Date: 2002-06-04T09:33:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Declaring variables?

On Monday 03 June 2002 06:34 pm, you wrote:
> As I understand it, there isn't really a concept of "declaring" a
> variable in ruby. When I make an assignment to a variable, it's
> automatically created with the type of the rvalue if needed.
>
> If I try to read a variable that doesn't exist, I'll get an exception.
>
> But what if I try to set the wrong variable name? e.g.:
>
> number = 3
> numbr += 1 # a typo
> puts number # prints 3, but should have printed 4
>
> Is there a way to protect myself from typos on lvalue variable names?

no
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