[Pdx-pm] Answer to Ruby question
Ovid
poec at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 14 12:03:24 CST 2002
--- Phil Tomson <ptkwt at aracnet.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Good meeting this evening...
>
> Someone asked me a question about what happens in Ruby when you have a
> typo in your variable name and try to assign an undefined variable to
> another like so:
>
> astring = "this is a string"
> b = asting
>
> When you try to run ruby on this, ruby reports:
> undefined.rb:2: undefined local variable or method `asting' for
> #<Object:0x401d9ce0> (NameError)
Phil,
Thanks for the answer on that! It seems like an obvious way to go about it.
I'd recommend other Perl Mongers check out Ruby. It's a great language.
Cheers,
Ovid
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