From: Donglai Gong <donglai@...>
Date: 2003-06-27T13:36:56+09:00
Subject: Re: why can't I use $3somevar for global variable in ruby 1.8.0?

There must be a reason why $1ve is disallowed in 1.8.0 but I can't 
imagine why.  Anyone knows the reason behind this change?

Donglai

On Friday, Jun 27, 2003, at 00:23 US/Eastern, WATANABE Hirofumi wrote:

> 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
>