From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Date: 2001-06-03T00:19:54+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:16166] Re: Strange idea... exporting from a scope Hi, In message "[ruby-talk:16161] Re: Strange idea... exporting from a scope" on 01/06/02, Stephen White writes: |Yes, if you use {}'s, you can't access variables in the outer scope. You |can only pass parameters in and use the return value, like a proc/method. | |If you wanted to access variables in the outer scope, you could use the |do/end block, which has flat scope. I think it's too much restriction for {}. I want their difference to be precedence only. matz.