From: Karl-Heinz Wild <kh.wild@...>
Date: 2005-10-12T15:31:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Default argument values for blocks

On 12.10.2005, at 08:15, Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> Selon Karl-Heinz Wild <kh.wild@wicom.li>:
>
>>>
>>>   foo {|a; b, c| ...}   # b and c are block local
>>>
>>
>> and how I whould have to write that c is global?
>>
>>      foo { | a,b, global c | }
>>      foo { | a, b, <c> | }
>>
>> Please don't misunderstand my suggestion.
>> I have no idea if it's possible or not,
>> but it looks pretty to me :)
>
> If I understood the discussion correctly, you *don't* have to write  
> anything if
> you want c not to be block local. The planned new behaviour of  
> blocks is that
> local variables defined in them will be local to the whole scope,  
> not the block
> itself only, *unless* you indicate them explicitly through the  
> syntax above. So
> there's no need to indicate globality.

You are right. I've overseen that. My intention wasn't to change the
planned new behaviour, only thinking about the syntax.

> And now someone is probably going to come and say I made a complete  
> fool of
> myself and didn't understand what is going on ;) (in other words,  
> take this
> with a huge AFAIK in front of it).

But really, I'm not shy to be what I am.
Maybe - sometime a fool :)

regards
Karl-Heinz