Actually, the question may be better asked as: “at what point does Ruby work out that something is a variable?” The problem arises because the simple expression “a\ could be either a variable

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Actually, the question may be better asked as: “at what point does Ruby work out that something is a variable?” The problem arises because the simple expression “a\ could be either a variable

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Actually, the question may be better asked as: “at what point does Ruby work out that something is a variable?” The problem arises because the simple expression “a\ could be either a variable

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Actually, the question may be better asked as: "at what point does Ruby work out that something is a variable?" The problem arises because the simple expression ``a\ could be either a variable
What is the point of highlighting a local problem? Will this not just create concern among the public locally rather than actually solving it?
Actually, the question may be better asked as: "at what point does Ruby work out that something is a variable?

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or a call to a method with no parameters. To decide which is the case, Ruby looks for assignment statements. If at some point in the source prior to the use of “a” it sees it being assigned to, it decides to parse “a” as a variable, otherwise it treats it as a method.

Actually, the question may be better asked as: “at what point does Ruby work out that something is a variable?” The problem arises because the simple expression “a\ could be either a variable

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