From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-08-02T05:12:02+09:00
Subject: Re: I thought this was the one that worked?

On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Chad Perrin wrote:

> 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.

no.

   def x
     puts a
   end

is __lexical__ scoping.  not dynamic.

-a
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