From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2008-10-29T05:28:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Quick Scope Question

Robert Klemme wrote:
> 2008/10/27 David A. Black <dblack@rubypal.com>:
...
>> Blocks have a kind of one-way valve local scope. Variables that
>> already exist before the block will exist in the block. Variables that
>> are created in the block do not survive past the block.
> 
> Which is basically the same in many modern programming languages,
> isn't it?  Of course, there are some subtleties (e.g. whether
> shadowing of more local definitions is allowed etc.).

That rules out javascript as modern. Grrr.

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