From: WATANABE Hirofumi <eban@...>
Date: 2003-06-27T13:23:49+09:00
Subject: Re: why can't I use $3somevar for global variable in ruby 1.8.0?

Hi,

Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@math.umd.edu> writes:

> dcarrera ~ $ ruby -v
> ruby 1.8.0 (2002-12-24) [sparc-solaris2.8]
> dcarrera ~ $ irb
> >> $3somevar = "whatever" 
> => "whatever"
> 
> 
> What's the problem?

Your ruby is too old.

ChangeLog says:

Tue Apr  8 11:49:31 2003  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>

(snip)

        * parse.y (yylex): disallow global variables like "$1ve".
          [ruby-core:00945]

-- 
eban