From: hal9000@...
Date: 2000-12-22T07:10:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7920] Re: defined? problem?


>
> c> j = 0 if not defined? j
>
>  At compile time, ruby resolve `j' as a reference (in the 2 cases) to
a
>  local variable, because `j = 0' was seen *before* `defined? j'
>
>  At runtime, because `j' is a local variable, it is also defined and
ruby
>  don't execute the code `j = 0' this mean that j contain nil
>

That's a reasonable explanation, but it seems somewhat annoying
behavior to me...

Hal

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Hal Fulton


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