From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2008-09-29T21:05:34+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby1.9 block scope

Hi,

In message "Re: ruby1.9 block scope"
    on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:54:43 +0900, Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@dan42.com> writes:

|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. But 
|  when I try it:
|
| >> 1.times{ x=2 }
|=> 1
| >> x
|NameError: undefined local variable or method `x' for main:Object
|
|Did I dream all that? If it wasn't a dream, when and why was that change 
|reversed?

I have once presented a plan to make it work so, but have never
implemented.  So it's not "changed reversed".  Just the idea
abandoned.

							matz.