From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-08-12T02:00:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Nested methods and define_method (was Re: Yet Another useless Ruby 2 Idea)

Hi --

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, mathew wrote:

> gabriele renzi wrote:
>> it is, I wrote that method nesting should be prohibited, thus your second 
>> interpretation is invalid and thus there is no ambiguity.
>
> Well, I disagree with prohibiting nested methods.
>
>> Nested method definitions are mostly useless anyway because of the method 
>> scoping (actually, I think I never saw an example of using a nested def 
>> instead of a define_method in some years of rubying :)
>
> What do you mean?  When I try it, a nested method is scoped so that it is 
> only visible inside the method it's defined in.  That's exactly the behavior 
> you want for nested methods to be useful.

   $ ruby -ve 'def x; def y; 1; end; end; x; p y'
   ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i686-linux]
   1


David
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