[LRUG] attr_accessor parsed as a method variable when setting with a get

[Jon Leighton]

On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 10:50 +0100, James Darling wrote:
> I spent quite a while trying to isolate an issue yesterday. I've done
> so now, and worked around it, but now I'm interested in what's going
> on.

As others have said, the answer is yes, it's a consqeuence of Ruby's
parser. When Ruby sees an lvar assignment, it initializes the symbol to
nil in the symbol table. Another example of this is:

def foo
  bar = "<3" if false
  bar
end

foo # => nil

Even though 'bar = "<3"' never runs, the lvar still gets initialized in
the symbol table, hence the method returns nil.

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