jrubyc won't compile a file with method in outer scope (NoMethodError: undefined method `new_method' for nil:NilClass) #3599
Description
Looking at the example at https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/JRubyCompiler
This should be possible i.e.
def my_method
puts 'splat'
end
my_method
results in a error like this from jrubyc:
$ java -jar tools/jruby-complete-9.0.4.0.jar -S jrubyc --verbose --javac outer.rb
NoMethodError: undefined method `new_method' for nil:NilClass
new_method at uri:classloader:/META-INF/jruby.home/lib/ruby/stdlib/jruby/compiler/java_class.rb:115
block in ClassNodeWalker at uri:classloader:/META-INF/jruby.home/lib/ruby/stdlib/jruby/compiler/java_class.rb:239
.. and so on ...
This works fine when executed as a script e.g.
$ java -jar tools/jruby-complete-9.0.4.0.jar outer.rb
splat