From: Clifford Heath <no@...>
Date: 2008-03-12T08:30:17+09:00
Subject: Re: setting local variables via eval

Robert Dober wrote:
> Obviously I miss something, but I have the feeling that this
> simplification still works, which use cases did I miss?
> ...
>   puts view.render(:x => 40, :y => 2)  #=> <body> 42 </body>

Try running it with the following:

puts view.render(:context => 40, :y => 2)  #=> TypeError

Ara's "scope" method contains no local variables for yours to step on.

Nice trick Ara - I always appreciate your insights. I had to play with
this one a bit before properly understanding it :-)

Clifford Heath.