From: James Coglan <jcoglan@...>
Date: 2008-09-29T19:59:25+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby1.9 block scope

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> I could have sworn that one of the firm changes in ruby 1.9 was that
> variables defined inside a block would also exist outside the block


No, it's the reverse. Take this:

x = 5
1.upto(10) { |i| x = i }
puts x

ruby1.8 prints "10", ruby1.9 should print "5".

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