From: 7stud -- <dolgun@...>
Date: 2007-09-19T05:21:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Variable / Method Ambiguity

7stud -- wrote:
>David Black wrote:
>The second time through
>the loop, there's no assignment to a, and the first variable a has
>gone out of scope. > 

Wait a minute.  'a' has gone out of scope?

for i in 1..2
    if i == 1
        a = 10
        print "a=", a, "\n"
    else
        puts a
    end
end


puts "*#{a}"


puts a

--output:--
a=10
10
*10


In ruby, for loops and if clauses don't create a scope.
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