From: Conrad Schneiker <schneik@...>
Date: 2001-03-13T16:14:45+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:12556] Re: FEATURE REQUEST: 'my' local variables

Matz wrote:

# I have two ideas, still not knowing which is better to solve this
# problem.
[...] 
# The one is allowing explicit declaration of block local variables.
# <a,b|c,d> is one choice of notations.  The other notation candidates
# may be special block form({{}}), and special declarative assignment.
# Special declarative assignment is something like:
# 
#   {
#     e = 1    # e may or may not be local to the block
#     f := 2   # f is always local to this block
#   }

I like this, but I would like to see the roles of '=' and ':='
reversed, since I would like everything local by default, and I would
prefer to use '=' for the most common case. Unfortunately that
wouldn't automatically be backwards compatible.

Conrad Schneiker
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