From: Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com>
Date: 2008-09-29T21:24:02+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby1.9 block scope

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> 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.

Ah, ok, then I guess I *did* dream the whole thing. For the record, I 
think it's a great idea and deserves to be implemented... in ruby 2.0 
maybe ;-)

--
Daniel