[Rubygrammar-grammarians] Ruby Grammar Project

[MenTaLguY]

On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 22:27 -0500, MenTaLguY wrote:

> For a bare identifier to be treated as a variable (rather than a method
> call), it's sufficient for an assignment to it to appear anywhere prior
> to that point within a method body.

Sorry, _the_ method body.  Assignments in other method bodies or outside
the method body don't matter.

Needless to say, (if I remember the interview correctly) the way
implicit variable declaration happens in Ruby is near the top on matz'
list of things-he-wishes-he-would-have-done-differently.

-mental
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