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Hi, The code below creates a value, x$a, which depending on how you access it evaluates to its initial value, or to what it's been changed to. The last two lines should, I would have thought, evaluate to the same value, but they don't. f <- function () { x <- NULL; x$a <- 0; x$get.a <- function () { x$a; }; x$increment.a <- function () { x$a <<- x$a + 5;

Hi all, I''m fairly new to rails and ruby, but I''ve come across an interesting glitch and I''m not sure whether I''ve just got something wrong with my assumptions or if it really is an error in the underlying framework... I''ve created a bare-bones set of tests to show you where the problem is. What follows are the steps I went through to reproduce the