Feature #12114: $VERBOSE = true is being ignored

• Status: Open
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -

[rovf (Ronald Fischer)]

This programm correctly complains about "assigned but unused variable - p"

#!/usr/bin/ruby -w
p=1

However, this one doesn't

#!/usr/bin/ruby
BEGIN {$VERBOSE = true}
p=1

Setting $VERBOSE to true in a BEGIN block should have the same effect as providing it on the command line, but this is obviously not the case.

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Tracker changed from Bug to Feature
• Description updated (diff)

Thus is a spec now.
That warning is at parsing, but BEGIN blocks are executed after it.

It may be possible by executing BEGINs during parsing, but it needs renovations.