Kent Sibilev
5/30/2005 7:38:00 PM
Your local variables always hide methods with the same name. In order
to call a method instead of accessing a variable you should provide
some hints to Ruby like use parentheses () or access a method
explicitly through self.method_name.
Kent.
On 5/30/05, Robert Mannl <ro@cayoparaiso.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I got one question. While I was coding a method earlier today, and that
> method had lots of local variables, I was thinking:
>
> "What happens when I introduce a new method sometime in the future,
> while adding features to my program? That may lead to name clashes"
>
> For example, lets say I use the local variable "ids" in a method - as
> soon as I introduce a method called ids into the class, or a mixin of
> that class - whatever - the program breaks! And it's not easy to avoid
> that..
>
> Am I missing something here?
>
> Thanks :)
>
>
> Rob
>
> PS: btw I'm getting some spam to my brand new email address (this one
> I'm using) - I searched the web for my email address and an archive of
> this Ruby mailing list -- shouldn't that be avoided? Posting emails on
> the web I mean --- it's not a big problem though, as this email is not
> very important. Just curious
>
>