James Gray
3/1/2006 9:19:00 PM
On Mar 1, 2006, at 3:13 PM, cremes.devlist@mac.com wrote:
> I was intrigued by the post that _why put up a few days/weeks ago
> about using case/when for testing arrays [1]. I thought I'd give it
> a try but I can't make it work. What am I doing wrong?
>
> irb(main):001:0> r1 = (0..12).to_a
> => [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]
> irb(main):002:0> r2 = (20..32).to_a
> => [20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32]
> irb(main):003:0> def foo range
> irb(main):004:1> case range
> irb(main):005:2> when *r1
> irb(main):006:2> puts "#{range} in r1"
> irb(main):007:2> when *r2
> irb(main):008:2> puts "#{range} in r2"
> irb(main):009:2> else
> irb(main):010:2* puts "#{range} NOT in any range"
> irb(main):011:2> end
> irb(main):012:1> end
> => nil
> irb(main):013:0> foo 3
> NameError: undefined local variable or method `r1' for main:Object
> from (irb):5:in `foo'
> from (irb):13
Method definitions, unlike blocks, are not closures and do not have
access to local variables from the scope where they are defined.
Move the vars inside the method, or switch them to instance (or
global) vars and it will work.
Hope that helps.
James Edward Gray II