From: Lionel Thiry <lthiryidontwantspam@...>
Date: 2005-04-06T08:24:39+09:00
Subject: [curiousity] why aren't declarations just syntactic sugar?

Hello!

I'd like to know why in ruby, a construction like:
  class MyClass
   ...
  end

isn't just a syntactic sugar for:
  MyClass = Class.new do
   ...
  end

Is it a problem about block variable binding? Is it a problem of speed? 
Something else?

Thanks in advance.

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Lionel Thiry