From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2006-08-02T04:59:23+09:00
Subject: Re: I thought this was the one that worked?

On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 11:34:35PM +0900, dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality wrote:
> 
> >a = 1
> >def x
> >   puts a
> >end
> >
> >def y
> >   x
> >end
> >
> >
> >   Then x _will_ be a closure but, then again, we already knew this...
> 
> But the a inside x and the a outside x are unrelated.  Method
> definition blocks (with def) aren't closures.

Wait . . . are you serious?  Ruby is using dynamic scope here?  Ugh.

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