From: "trans.  (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>
Date: 2004-10-08T19:51:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Kernel#eval taking a block

On Friday 08 October 2004 01:49 am, nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
| Hi,
|
| At Tue, 5 Oct 2004 03:51:20 +0900,
|
| trans.  (T. Onoma) wrote in [ruby-talk:114847]:
| > I see. So this kind of thing just can't happen I take it. (Hmm... I think
| > we discussed this kind of thing on core once.) It would be nice if we
| > could pass in locals to the binding:
| >
| >   eval(tb, a) { |a| cool = a.call(cool) }
| >
| > It might also be nice if this could be done without "stepping on toes"
| > (i.e. overwriting binding's locals).
|
| eval("proc{|cool|}", tb).call(a.call(eval("cool", tb)))

What are you?  

(Note: if this statement doesn't cross the language barrier well, just know 
that it is a big compliment!)

T.