From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2005-09-29T03:06:47+09:00
Subject: Re: creating independent lambdas in loops

Ara.T.Howard <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, David A. Black wrote:
> >
> >  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!

Blocks exist in the caller's scope, not the method's, so I don't really
see the problem here.

martin