From: "T. Onoma" <transami@...>
Date: 2003-11-29T05:39:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Controlled block variables

On Friday 28 November 2003 08:21 pm, Hal Fulton wrote:
> One thing that comes to my mind is this:
>
> The () notation seems to make sense for a variable that happens
> to refer to a proc. But what if you stick parens on a variable
> that isn't a proc? This seems like a syntax error, but it would
> have to be detected at runtime.
>
>    foo = proc {...}
>    1.upto(5) do |i|
>      foo = "Haha!!" if i==4
>      foo()   # What happens when i is 4?
>    end

yes, weird errors. that's a big minus.

-t0