On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 11:19 +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
>  Yes, and in Ruby2.0, this will be changed to "if you see an assignment
>  to a bare name, that name means a variable in the current scope",

This is best for the user.  However...

Will the Ruby2.0 grammar no longer have variable/method ambiguities?

Otherwise, it'd be supremely nasty to parse.  As far as I can figure
out, you'd have to do it in multiple passes...

-mental