From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-03-15T01:36:53+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:12628] Re: FEATURE REQUEST: 'my' local variables

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:12613] Re: FEATURE REQUEST: 'my' local variables"
    on 01/03/14, Leo Razoumov <see_signature@127.0.0.1> writes:

|How to read the following?
|{
|  e =  1
|  f := 2
|  f  = 3  #possible typo?
|}

The first declarative assignment make `f` local to the block, so that
consequent assignment and reference do not affect its status.

|I think that the declarative construct {<a,b> ...} is easier to understand and
|harder to misuse. 

Probably.  I'd like to consider every possibility.

							matz.