From: Amos <amos+lists.ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2001-05-06T00:37:18+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14709] Re: local/nonlocal block vars

>>>>> On Sat, 5 May 2001 15:15:04 +0900,
>>>>> Guy N Hurst <gnhurst@hurstlinks.com> (gnh) writes:

gnh> But maybe the symbol notation can be used in place of the < >
gnh> for signaling vars which should be block-local. (Note: this is
gnh> the opposite of the above proposal).

gnh> x=99
gnh> 5.times {|:x| print x }	# here, :x indicates it *should* be block-local
gnh> 3.times {|y| print y }	# here, y would be used or 'created' 
gnh> puts x			# 99
gnh> puts y			# 3

Well, this has been a long thread, but it certainly has been an
interesting one, at least to me.  The appealing quality of this
approach is that it doesn't introduce anything that's not a part
of the language already....

-- 
Amos