From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-02-13T00:40:21+09:00
Subject: Re: formal argument cannot be an instance variable

Hi -

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Phlip wrote:

> someone tried my code on 1.9 and got this "bug":
>
>> Hydra(src}$ruby9 ruby_reflector_test.rb     <== ruby 1.90
>> ruby_reflector_test.rb:117: formal argument cannot be an instance variable
>>    Pathname.glob(rubynodes) do |@node_rb|
>>                                         ^
>
> Uh, guys, that can't possibly be a feature, right? Dropping an iter parameter 
> into an ivar is a totally awesome technique - especially because it helps the 
> Method Object Refactor...

Block parameter semantics are no longer assignment-based. I'm a bit
nostalgic for the old way too :-) But it's all part of the new
approach that allows for block locals and so forth.


David

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