From: Mischa Fierer <f.mischa@...>
Date: 2008-09-11T17:19:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Blocks and scoping question

Stefano Crocco wrote:
> On Thursday 11 September 2008, Mischa Fierer wrote:
>> 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

Sorry, phrased this wrong, i wasn't looking at the return value, but the 
2 above it.
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