From: Mike Gold <mike.gold.4433@...>
Date: 2008-09-30T17:24:03+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby1.9 block scope

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> 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.

The current ruby doesn't, but a future one might?  The reason I posted 
was because the phrase "I haven't introduced it yet" might imply that it 
could happen.
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