From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2003-05-07T10:19:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Testing for a class existence

On Wednesday,  7 May 2003 at  9:39:39 +0900, Josef 'Jupp' Schugt wrote:
> Saluton!
> 
> * Phil Tomson <ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com>; 2003-05-07, 00:32 UTC:
> > irb(main):002:0> defined?(c,d = 1,2)
> > SyntaxError: compile error
> > (irb):2: syntax error
> > defined?(c,d = 1,2)

Same for me:

ruby -v -e 'defined?(a,b=1,2)'
ruby 1.8.0 (2003-03-10) [i386-freebsd4.6]
-e:1: parse error
defined?(a,b=1,2)
           ^
-e:1: parse error

 
> Strange. The version of irb you use is which?
> 
> 0:35:07 [5] /home/jupp> irb -v&&irb
> irb 0.7.4(01/05/08)
> irb(main):001:0> defined? ( c,d = 1,2 )
> => "assignment"

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Jim Freeze
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