Ironruby core - Jan 2008 - Just starting with IronRuby; problem with rbx

First I appologize for posting with problems so quickly after joining
the list.  This might have been discussed, but I didn''t see anything
after a quick scan of the archives.

Last night, I retrieved current source from SVN.  I built the project
and ran ''rbx''.  The session output is listed below.

Does anyone else have any idea what might have gone wrong here?
Anyone else experiencing similar problems?

Here is the transcript of the session

C:\Projects\IronRuby\Bin\Debug>rbx
0.1
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights
reserved.
>>> a = [1,2,3]
=> [1, 2, 3]
>>> b = a
:0:in `main'': undefined local variable or method `a'' for
main:Object (NoMethodEr
ror)
        from :0:in `##6''
>>>
-- 
Greg Akins
Software Development Manager
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We don''t have local variables working in the console. Use instance or
globals instead when running interactive mode.

- John
Sent from my phone

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Akins <angrygreg at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 8:04 AM
To: ironruby-core at rubyforge.org <ironruby-core at rubyforge.org>
Subject: [Ironruby-core] Just starting with IronRuby; problem with rbx


First I appologize for posting with problems so quickly after joining
the list.  This might have been discussed, but I didn''t see anything
after a quick scan of the archives.

Last night, I retrieved current source from SVN.  I built the project
and ran ''rbx''.  The session output is listed below.

Does anyone else have any idea what might have gone wrong here?
Anyone else experiencing similar problems?

Here is the transcript of the session

C:\Projects\IronRuby\Bin\Debug>rbx
0.1
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights
reserved.
>>> a = [1,2,3]
=> [1, 2, 3]
>>> b = a
:0:in `main'': undefined local variable or method `a'' for
main:Object (NoMethodEr
ror)
        from :0:in `##6''
>>>
--
Greg Akins
Software Development Manager
SSI Services

http://kc.vanadium.com
http://www.pghcodingdojo.org
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Perhaps you should add a little message on the console when you run up
rbx.exe till this is fixed?
E.G.

C:\Projects\IronRuby\Bin\Debug>rbx
0.1
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
============================================================= Local variables
not yet working - use instance or globals
============================================================>>>

Peter Bacon Darwin:
> 0.1
> Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
> ============================================================> = Local
variables not yet working - use instance or globals >
============================================================> >>>
Doh. Great idea! I''ll add it the next time around.

-John

On Jan 27, 2008 12:22 PM, Peter Bacon Darwin <bacondarwin at
googlemail.com> wrote:
> Perhaps you should add a little message on the console when you run up
> rbx.exe till this is fixed?
> E.G.
>
> C:\Projects\IronRuby\Bin\Debug>rbx
> 0.1
> Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
> ============================================================> = Local
variables not yet working - use instance or globals >
============================================================>
> >>>
This appeared to be working in the "Get/Build" screencast.  Did it
disappear

-- 
Greg Akins
Software Development Manager
SSI Services

http://kc.vanadium.com
http://www.pghcodingdojo.org
http://www.insomnia-consulting.org/monologue

Greg Akins:
> This appeared to be working in the "Get/Build" screencast.  Did
it
> disappear
Yep. It was a hack that was removed at around the time of RubyConf. It has to do
with how we compile the line of code and what context that code gets compiled
into. You need to save your local context across compilations for your locals to
show up the next time around. This problem doesn''t exist when we
compile files as opposed to lines.

At some point we''ll be able to just run irb instead of our own console.
To run irb, we''ll need the same set of features that we require for our
own console. Shouldn''t be much longer before that''s working.

-John