[Ruby] eval question

[Ben Speakmon]

irb's scoping rules are different from straight ruby. It doesn't work
with my ruby 1.8.5 interpreter.

On 4/30/07, Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby at zenspider.com> wrote:
>
> On Apr 30, 2007, at 13:09 , Aaron Patterson wrote:
>
> > In this code, 'easy_lover' is defined, but for some reason
> > 'phil_collins' is not.  First, why is that?  Second, can I make it so?
> > You can have Easy Lover without Phil!
>
> What version of ruby??
>
> % irb
>  >> eval(<<-END
>      phil_collins = 'awesome'
>      def easy_lover
>        "She'll get a hold on you believe it"
>      end
>    END
>  >> )
> => nil
>  >> phil_collins
> => "awesome"
>  >> RUBY_VERSION
> => "1.8.5"
>
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