From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2005-04-06T08:33:19+09:00
Subject: Re: [curiousity] why aren't declarations just syntactic sugar?

Hi,

At Wed, 6 Apr 2005 08:24:39 +0900,
Lionel Thiry wrote in [ruby-talk:137002]:
>   class MyClass
>    ...
>   end

class hides outer scope, so this causes an error.

  x = 1
  class MyClass
    p x			# => Name Error
  end

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

But block doesn't.

-- 
Nobu Nakada