From: Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@...>
Date: 2008-09-11T17:16:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Blocks and scoping question

On Thursday 11 September 2008, Mischa Fierer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The following makes sense to me:
>
> lambda {|x| puts x; [1,2].collect{|x| x+1} }.call("aaa")
> aaa
> => [2, 3]
>
> The following does not so much:
>
> lambda {|x| puts x; [1,2].collect{|x| x+1}; puts x }.call("aaa")
> aaa
> 2
> => nil
>
> Why is the final puts x not return a?

Because puts always returns nil:

ri IO#puts

---------------------------------------------------------------- IO#puts
     ios.puts(obj, ...)    => nil
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Stefano