From: Godspeed <bl719293@...>
Date: 2006-03-01T21:23:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Iterators and Assigment

Thanks guys. Your responses have cleared this up. I was assumig some sort of 
substitution (of the block into the def) going on, but I realise it is the 
other way round, the parameters to yield are parameters to the block. Makes 
perfect sense now.

"Jonathan Leighton" <lists@turnipspatch.com> wrote in message 
news:1141149129.8908.8.camel@localhost.localdomain...
> On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 22:38 +0900, Robert Klemme wrote:
>> Godspeed wrote:
>> > Consider...
>> >
>> > def fred
>> >   yield $k
>> >   puts "in fred #{$k}"
>> > end
>> >
>> > $k=2
>> > fred {|o| o = 3}
>> > puts "outside fred #{$k}"
>> >
>> > produces:
>> >
>> > in fred 2
>> > outside fred 2
>> >
>> > why is $k still 2 after the call to fred?
>>
>> Because Ruby does call by value where values are object references.  Same
>> holds for blocks and their parameters.  There is no implicit aliasing
>> between k$ and o.  When the block is invoked you get a new reference 
>> which
>> initially points to the same instance as $k.  Then you assign it and it
>> points to some other object leaving $k still pointing to the old 
>> instance.
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>>     robert
>
> So, try this:
>
> def fred
>  $k = yield
>  puts "in fred #{$k}"
> end
>
> $k = 2
> fred { 3 }
> puts "outside fred #{$k}"
>
> Returns:
>
> in fred 3
> outside fred 3
>
> You can call yield with parameters if you need the value of $k to be
> accessible inside the block. Although $k is accessible inside the block
> anyway as it's a global. Although you're probably not using a global in
> your actual code.
>
> Regards
>
> -- 
> Jonathan Leighton
> http://turnipspatch.com/ | http://jonathanleighton.com/ | 
> http://digital-proof.org/
>
>
>