From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-08-02T03:28:41+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18986] Re: a variable scope question

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:18980] a variable scope question"
    on 01/08/02, Yuguo Wang <yxw@cypress.com> writes:

|To me, in the following codes, line is declared in the begin ... end
|block, how come it is still available outside of the block? Could anyone
|give me some help in understanding this? Thanks a  lot.

Scopes are introduced by the following statements, class, module, def,
and do.  begin is not among these statements.

							matz.