Hi, At Sat, 7 Jan 2006 05:34:06 +0900, noreply / rubyforge.org wrote in [ruby-core:07070]: > NULL pointer reference will happen when the following program is parsed: > > C:\ruby-1.8.4-i386-mswin32\bin>ruby -e 'def a=.a=;end' > -e:1: identifier a= is not valid > -e:1: [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-mswin32] Thank you for the report, fixed now. -- Nobu Nakada