From: Jason Creighton <androflux@...>
Date: 2003-07-18T23:04:27+09:00
Subject: Re: What's the point?

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:26:14 GMT
"Sean O'Dell" <sean@REMOVEME.celsoft.com> wrote:


> They're known as "local functions" I think (not sure if that is a universal
> term for them).  I use these from time to time in Pascal.  I have several
> uses for them:

I'm confused: Are they supposed to be local? (Ruby-1.8.0-pre3)

~$ irb
>> def fred()
>>   puts "Fred here!"
>>   def bob()
>>     puts "Bob here!"
>>     end
>>   bob()
>>   end
=> nil
>> bob()
NoMethodError: undefined method `bob' for main:Object
        from (irb):8
>> fred()
Fred here!
Bob here!
=> nil
>> bob()
Bob here!
=> nil
>> 

It looks like it's just an unexpected (for me) side-effect of method
definitions being done at runtime.

Jason Creighton