From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-06-02T01:15:39+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16138] Re: Strange idea... exporting from a scope

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:16134] Re: Strange idea... exporting from a scope"
    on 01/06/01, Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> writes:

|> I'm too lazy to type in "exprt" and variable name. so I'm thinking
|> about automatic scope upgrade in the future Ruby, i.e. if you use
|> local variable name out of its blocked scope, it would be
|> automatically exported to the outer scope.
|
|Argh!?
|
|Local variables are sometimes used when you explicitely don't want them to
|get exported in the outer scope...

I meant propagation from local variable scope made by block, not out
of other scopes (methods, classes etc.)

							matz.