From: Jeff <cohen.jeff@...>
Date: 2008-10-30T22:41:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about case statement and lambdas

On Oct 30, 3:22 am, Brian Candler <b.cand...@pobox.com> wrote:
> David A. Black wrote:
> > Expanding on Botp's point about options being changed:
>
> > The problem is that if options is a Proc the first time you call the
> > lambda, it isn't the second time. It's still whatever got assigned to
> > it.
>
> And whilst at first glance it seems that 'options' is actually "just" a
> local method argument which drops out of scope when the method returns,
> it is of course bound into the environment of the lambda (i.e. the
> closure), and persists there.
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Excellent... thanks for that insight.

Jeff

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