if check? result = "something" end result.nil?
Is one pretend use case I can think of. Typically though this is not done. > On 13 Jan 2016, at 20:41, Tom Hale <[email protected]> wrote: > > It took some debugging to come across this one: > > irb(main):043:0> w > NameError: undefined local variable or method `w' for main:Object > from (irb):43 > from /home/ravi/.rbenv/versions/2.2.3/bin/irb:11:in `<main>' > irb(main):044:0> w = w > => nil > irb(main):045:0> > > Yeah, right, so what? > > It leads to "find the nil" fun-hunts in cases such as: > > irb(main):057:0> mispelt_argument = > Array(mispelt_argument).flatten.uniq.map(&:name) > => [] > > Are there any cases in which this "feature" is actually useful, or is it an > unintended parser functionality? > > Tom > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
