From: Domenico De Felice <defelicedomenico@...>
Date: 2005-11-05T05:27:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Some comments on new 1.9 features

Trans wrote:
[CUT]
> The comment was simply that, to indicate what the semi-colon is doing.
> It has no function. Nonetheless to me its a good indication of a better
> way:
>
>    d = 2
>    a = lambda{|d| local d = 1}
>    a.call()
>    d             # => 2
>
> Self commenting.

IMO it would be even better to use a special character in front of the
name, such as for @instance and @@class attributes, to distinguish
among normal and local scope. However I can't think which character
would look less weird :-)
maybe &d to make d local-scoped.

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Domenico