From: Pit Capitain <pit@...>
Date: 2005-05-17T23:08:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Help regarding def wrapper

Gavin Kistner schrieb:
> On May 17, 2005, at 7:52 AM, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> 
>> I’d like to have a def that I can scope in one go, i.e.,
> 
> With your technique, you cannot declare default values for arguments,  
> correct? (At least, not in blocks in 1.8)

Adding to Gavin's answer, note the following difference:

   class A
     a = 5
     scoped_def :public, :m1 do a rescue $! end
     def m2() a rescue $! end
   end

   p A.new.m1  # => 5
   p A.new.m2  # => #<NameError: undefined local variable or method `a'>

Regards,
Pit