From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2007-03-08T21:32:05+09:00
Subject: Re: elseif v. elsif ??

On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 08:49:00PM +0900, Jenda Krynicky wrote:
> Let's see ... what does this code do?
> 
> for my $obj (@list) {
>  $obj->foo()
> }
> 
> Well, that's clear, it calls the foo() method on all objects in the 
> @list. OTOH, what does this one do?
> 
> list.each { |obj| obj.foo() }
> 
> Well, maybe it does the exact some thing ... and maybe it also changes 
> the obj variable from whatever it was before this line to the last 
> object in the list.

FWIW, I understand this is/has changed in ruby 1.9, so that block
parameters are always local to the block.