From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-08-07T18:11:38+09:00
Subject: Re: new block notation (was: Re: ruby-dev summary 26468-26661)

Stefan Lang <langstefan@gmx.at> writes:

> On Saturday 06 August 2005 15:14, Gavin Kistner wrote:
>> Blocks are associated with the instance that is the receiver of the
>> � method to which they are passed. 'self' and instance variables
>> refer to that instance.
>
> Am I misunderstanding you completely?
>
> self and instance variables in a block should refer to the
> context in which the block is defined, not to the receiving
> instance.

Counterexample: instance_eval...  I don't think you can make a-priori
any assumptions about the non-local binding of the block.  (The
*local* binding is the lexical binding, though.)

> Stefan
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