From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-08-02T05:07:26+09:00
Subject: Re: I thought this was the one that worked?


On Aug 1, 2006, at 3:56 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 11:00:12PM +0900, 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...
>
> If that's the case, then *everything else* is a closure too, because
> everything else has access to a -- at least where lexical or global
> scope exists.
>

Actually no one has access to a because it is a local variable.

Look all blocks close over at _least_ self. If a block contains a  
call to any receiverless method it is a closure even by your rigid  
definition.


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