From: murphy <murphy@...>
Date: 2007-12-23T06:39:16+09:00
Subject: Block-local variables - obsolete?

hello!

excuse me, but what was the purpose of the "|vars; local|" block syntax
again?

as I understand it, block variables in Ruby 1.9 are now always local:

  foo = bar = :outer

  [foo, bar]  # => [:outer, :outer]

  1.times do |foo; bar|
    [foo, bar]  # => [0, nil]
    foo = bar = :inner
  end

  [foo, bar]  # => [:outer, :outer]

making the ";"-syntax obsolete (it can be replaced with "," without
changing the behavior of the code.)

[murphy]