From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2005-07-29T21:21:01+09:00
Subject: Re: make local var visible

You could do:

  Foo=["a","b","c"]

  def mfoo
      Foo.each do |f|
          p f
      end
  end

  # go-go-go!
  mfoo

Yet I tend to agree. Even in classes, it just seems so much more
elegant:

  class Bar

    foo = ["a","b","c"]  # attribute

    def mfoo
       foo.each do |f|
          p f
       end
    end

  end

But the only way to do that woud be:

1) Irregular attr syntax.

    attr foo = ["a","b","c"]

2) Alternate assignment operator.

    foo := ["a","b","c"]

3) Prefixed local vars.

  %local_var = 'what have you'

I myself have suggested before that

  foo = 10

be essentially equivalent to

  def foo ; 10 ; end

And that constants and methods share the same namespace.

T.