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Subject: Re: Dereferencing instance variables vs local variables/methods
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Josep M. Bach wrote in post #990178:
> Hello,
>
> I think I don't agree/understand how instance variables work in ruby.
>


There is also this trickery as well:

if 1 > 5
  x = 10
end

puts x  #nil

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