Ruby Programming Language :: $binding global var?


	$binding global var? my ruby and irb don't know about $binding, it's not in the pickaxe and not in the quickref - where did you encounter it? On 5/29/07, Matthieu TC <matthie@yahoo.com> wrote: - Hide quoted text - > Hello, > Can anyone satisfy my curiosity and tell me what the global variable > $binding is for? > I though it might be a default binding for eval calls but my tests didnt > concur. > -matt Matthieu TC wrote: > Hello, > Can anyone satisfy my curiosity and tell me what the global variable $binding is for? > I though it might be a default binding for eval calls but my tests didnt concur. Irb uses $binding. But ruby does not: $ ruby -ve 'p global_variables.grep(/binding/)' ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i686-linux] [] -- vjoel : Joel VanderWerf : path berkeley edu : 510 665 3407