macirb loses track of local variables

[mharper@…]

macirb loses track of local variables.

After a clean test and install of the latest experimental branch on Snow Leopard (10A411), I fired up macirb for a quick test. macirb starts fine and gives me a prompt. But when I create a simple local variable and assign a string value to it, then try printing the variable, macirb throws an exception:

mharper$ macirb irb: warn: can't alias exit from irb_exit. irb(main):001:0> a = "hello" => "hello" irb(main):002:0> puts a NameError: undefined local variable or method `a' for main:TopLevel

from 0:in `eval:' from 0:in `evaluate:' from 0:in `evaluate:' from 0:in `signal_status:' from 0:in `each_top_level_statement' from 0:in `eval_input' from 0:in `start:'

irb(main):003:0> exit

macirb -v => irb 0.9.5(05/04/13)

[conradwt@…]

This also happens on Snow Leopard Build (10A402a). For example,

darnoc-laptop:etc conradwt$ macirb irb: warn: can't alias exit from irb_exit. irb(main):001:0> a = "This is a test" => "This is a test" irb(main):002:0> puts a NameError: undefined local variable or method `a' for main:TopLevel

from 0:in `eval:' from 0:in `evaluate:' from 0:in `evaluate:' from 0:in `signal_status:' from 0:in `each_top_level_statement' from 0:in `eval_input' from 0:in `start:'

[lsansonetti@…]

For a strange reason you can't assign a local variable in the very first expression. It works for further expressions though.

I did not investigate yet the reason of this bug, if anyone wants to have a look at it and extract the problem into a code snippet, it would be super helpful!

macirb is still very buggy right now on experimental and needs more love :)

[lsansonetti@…]

This should be fixed in trunk since a few weeks. There are still a couple of bugs related to Binding, but at least local variables should work.