From: Guillaume Marcais <guslist@...>
Date: 2003-06-17T02:20:20+09:00
Subject: Re: /BEGIN/ .. /END/  file reading

What is the life span of the flip-flop "object" (is it an object?)
created? Obviously in the code sample it outlived the if statement. But
the following (contrived) piece code doesn't work:

def test(s)
  if /^b/ =~ s .. /^e/ =~ s
    puts s
  end
end
while (line = gets) do
  test(line)
end

So does it have a scope similar to a local variable?

Guillaume.

On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 10:55, ts wrote:
> >>>>> "G" == Guillaume Marcais <guslist@free.fr> writes:
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> G> when inside the if statement?
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>  You have found : when ruby is in a condition (if, unless, while, ...) it
>  transform a range operator into a flip-flop operator.
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> Guy Decoux
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