From: Sean O'Halpin <sean.ohalpin@...>
Date: 2005-10-13T06:18:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Default argument values for blocks

On 10/12/05, Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Or maybe if "eval" became a keyword like you mentioned above
> and it could also take a block, you could do this instead:
>
> b=1
> eval {|;b|
>  b=5
>  p b # => 5
> }
> p b # => 1

+1

Any chance of eval taking a block ~and~ a specific binding, e.g.

  eval &block, binding

(though this breaks current argument parsing rules).

Sean