From: Albert Wagner <alwagner@...>
Date: 2001-07-10T10:47:28+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17577] Re: Constants and Variables

On Monday 09 July 2001 11:40, you wrote:
<snip>
>   One of the other things I miss dearly is a way to create a new
> block-local variable. I have been bitten by
>
> 	foo = 42
> 	bar.each { |foo| foo.doSomething(); }
> 	...foo is no longer 42
>
>   which would have been avoided by defining the second foo as block
> local -- by the way, it is a formal parameter for the block, why
> does it even think about touching the foo from outside the block?
> This looks so wrong to me.
>
>
Me too.  But for some reason I have yet to fathom, no one else here agrees.