From: Kevin Smith <sent@...>
Date: 2001-03-07T13:46:13+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:12205] Re: FEATURE REQUEST: 'my' local variables

Leo Razoumov wrote:
># PROPOSED FEATURE:
>x = 0  #line_1
>{
>  my x = 7  # new varible 'x' shadowing 'x' from line_1 
>  x  # -> 7
>}
>x    # -> 0

If I know that x should be local, I would 
probably just name it x2 instead. Of course, I 
try to avoid names like 'x' anyway, but you get 
the idea.

I'm not too fond of the way the language 
currently works (sometimes it does *this*, but 
other times it does *that*). But I know it would 
break too much code to change now. 

Bottom line: Although creative and reasonable, I 
don't see this suggestion as improving the 
language.

Kevin