From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-08-02T05:29:40+09:00
Subject: Re: I thought this was the one that worked?


On Aug 1, 2006, at 4:20 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:

> 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.
>


Ah this is where you misunderstand. def does not close over a. defs  
introduce a new "toplevel" scope.

> -- 
> CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
> "Real ugliness is not harsh-looking syntax, but having to
> build programs out of the wrong concepts." - Paul Graham
>