From: Seb Clediere <Sebastien.Clediere@_nospam_laposte.net>
Date: 2003-05-30T22:31:16+09:00
Subject: Re: local variable and local variable in block behave differently

Hi,

dblack@superlink.net wrote:
> I'm not sure what aspect of it is surprising you, but maybe it has to
> do with the fact that the assignment causes the variable to be defined
> (even if, at runtime, the assignment isn't executed):
> 
>   $ ruby -e 'if false; b = 1; end; p defined?(b)'
>   "local-variable"
> 
> Does that help explain it?
> 
> 
> David
> 

Sorry, I should have been more explicit. What surprises me is that in 
one case, the variable a has still its value "a" wherease in the other 
case, b is nil. I would have expected both cases to be the same, the 
assigned value.

Seb.