From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2003-05-09T07:04:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Can a global be a constant?

On Friday,  9 May 2003 at  7:01:04 +0900, dblack@superlink.net wrote:
> Hi --
> 
> On Fri, 9 May 2003, Jim Freeze wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> >
> Because a capitalized global variable is a variable :-)
> 
> Same thing with instance variables:
> 
> $ ruby -e "A=1; A=2; @B=1; @B=2"
> -e:1: warning: already initialized constant A
> 
> Once something doesn't begin with [A-Z], it can't be a constant.

Ok. I didn't realize that $, @, and @@ were considered part
of the name. Makes sense now.

-- 
Jim Freeze
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