[MacRuby-devel] [MacRuby] #298: macirb loses track of local variables

18 Jul 2009

      #298: macirb loses track of local variables
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 Reporter:  mharper@…                   |       Owner:  lsansonetti@…        
     Type:  defect                      |      Status:  new                  
 Priority:  major                       |   Milestone:                       
Component:  MacRuby                     |    Keywords:                       
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 macirb loses track of local variables.

 After a clean test and install of the latest experimental branch on Snow
 Leopard (10A411), I fired up macirb for a quick test.  macirb starts fine
 and gives me a prompt.  But when I create a simple local variable and
 assign a string value to it, then try printing the variable, macirb throws
 an exception:

 mharper$ macirb
 irb: warn: can't alias exit from irb_exit.
 irb(main):001:0> a = "hello"
 => "hello"
 irb(main):002:0> puts a
 NameError: undefined local variable or method `a' for main:TopLevel
         from 0:in `eval:'
         from 0:in `evaluate:'
         from 0:in `evaluate:'
         from 0:in `signal_status:'
         from 0:in `each_top_level_statement'
         from 0:in `eval_input'
         from 0:in `start:'
 irb(main):003:0> exit

 macirb -v => irb 0.9.5(05/04/13)

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Ticket URL: <http://www.macruby.org/trac/ticket/298>
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