From: Yukihiro Matsumoto Date: 2008-10-01T02:43:09+09:00 Subject: Re: ruby1.9 block scope Hi, In message "Re: ruby1.9 block scope" on Wed, 1 Oct 2008 02:06:38 +0900, Mike Gold writes: |I hope I'm not belaboring the point, but -- Yes, but * Class.new and define_method is a rather rare examples, of which non-block counterpart introduce new scopes. * In 1.9, you can have explicit block local variables if you expect any confusion. matz.