From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2008-09-30T17:08:26+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby1.9 block scope

Hi,

In message "Re: ruby1.9 block scope"
    on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:49:19 +0900, Mike Gold <mike.gold.4433@gmail.com> writes:

|Making the scope of x contingent upon what comes later would result, I 
|believe, in extreme confusion.

|One might argue that when 'x = 45' appears before bar and baz, this 
|_already_ changes the meaning of bar and baz.  But the situation here is 
|entirely different, in my mind.  Don't most of us read code from top to 
|bottom?

Understandable.  That's the very reason the current Ruby does not work
like this.

							matz.