From: Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@...>
Date: 2008-08-12T01:44:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Bindings and Context

On Monday 11 August 2008, Patrick Li wrote:
> Ah. okay.
> That really helps.
>
> So is this a correct interpretation?
>
> Every block/closure has an associated binding.
>
> The binding can be loosely described as
>   -a list of local variables
>   -and self.

Yes, I think so

> Calls to instance variables are shorthand for "self.@myInstanceVariable"
> and calls to instance methods are shorthand for "self.myInstanceMethod"
>
> Does that sound alright?

that's perfectly correct for calls to instance methods. For instance 
variables, it's true only conceptually, since ruby doesn't allow to call them 
thay way. 

Stefano