From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-03-16T16:16:40+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:12721] Re: FEATURE REQUEST: 'my' local variables

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:12718] Re: FEATURE REQUEST: 'my' local variables"
    on 01/03/16, "Doug Edmunds" <dae_alt3@juno.com> writes:

|code snippet1:
|
|animal = %w( cat dog cow duck )
|vegetable = %w( tomato carrot onion )
|vegetable.each { |animal| puts animal }
|p 'now animal is: ', animal  # result is 'onion'!!!

I think the problem is you were assigning vegetables to the variable
named "animal".  I think you don't complain

  int i;

  i = 22;
  for (i=0; i<10; i++) {
    printf("i=%d\n", i);
  }
  printf("i=%d\n", i);  /* result is 9!! */

And my fault was |animal| in {|animal| puts animal } seems like a
declaration which was not.  It's just an assignment to the loop
variable.

							matz.