From: George  Moschovitis <george.moschovitis@...>
Date: 2004-09-08T17:35:07+09:00
Subject: Creating new scope

Hello everyone,

I found the following ruby idiom in "The Ruby Way":

x = 0

1.times {
x = 1
puts x
}

puts x

prints:
1
0

essentialy this trick creates a new scope. Is there a more elegant
way to do it?
George Moschovitis

ps: The Ruby Way is a very nice book!