From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-09-29T02:42:32+09:00
Subject: Re: creating independent lambdas in loops

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, David A. Black wrote:

> See http://www.rubyist.net/~matz/slides/rc2003/mgp00010.html and the
> slides following that one.  I think the idea would be:
>
>  a = 1
>  method_call {|a| a = 2; b = 3 }
>  puts a  # 1
>  puts b  # 3

oh gawd - that's horrible : variables exported from method scope to the global
(or enclosing perhaps?) one. eeks!

being able to create top level vars from inside methods would, at least,
introduce a massive garbage collection issue and, at most, introduce millions
of very hard to track down bugs.

im__h__o.

cheers.

-a
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