From: hfulton@...
Date: 2001-06-02T02:36:03+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16144] Re: Strange idea... exporting from a scope

> |> 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.

Matz,

I think I understand you. But wouldn't this lead to a 
"proliferation" of variables? 

If I accidentally use a variable without assigning it, 
I get an error. But with this change, it is increasingly 
likely that a variable name will be left over from some 
arbitrary block a hundred lines back in my code.

Hal