From: "Florian Aßmann" <florian.assmann@...>
Date: 2007-08-30T09:48:39+09:00
Subject: Re: How does ruby handle scope and closure in this case?

Hi,

I think it's a excution stack thing, you should look a the C code if you
want to understand ruby magic.

Hope I got your question, otherwise the text you got this example from
describes fairly good why the 'thing' (or aThing) variable 'gets' out of
scope (its refence is still hold by the Proc object).

Even in the first case you should got the Object out of scope since you
passed the reference:

def n_times(thing)
  puts thing.object_id
  return thing
end

pi = n_times(23)
puts pi.object_id


Regards
Florian