From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2006-08-02T05:20:18+09:00
Subject: Re: I thought this was the one that worked?

On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 05:12:02AM +0900, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Chad Perrin wrote:
> >
> >Wait . . . are you serious?  Ruby is using dynamic scope here?  Ugh.
> 
> no.
> 
>   def x
>     puts a
>   end
> 
> is __lexical__ scoping.  not dynamic.

It's not lexical scoping if that "a" variable is separate from the "a"
variable in the enclosing scope.

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