From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2008-11-27T03:56:12+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:20128] Re: [Bug #797] bug or feature: local method ?

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Francoys <francois.pr@videotron.ca> wrote:
> As who see, i am facing a real life situation where nested methods
> seem very useful and the more elegant solution.

Nested methods in Ruby don't work like they do in Pascal; they appear in
the main object scope:

  class Foo
    def bar
      def baz
        puts "baz"
      end
      puts "bar"
    end
  end

  foo = Foo.new
  foo.baz #=> exception
  foo.bar #=> "bar"
  foo.baz #=> "baz"

I'm not sure if that matters for your use case.

-austin
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