From: Yuh-Ruey Chen <maian330@...>
Date: 2008-11-01T04:38:58+09:00
Subject: Re: How to access to local variables in enclosing scopes?

On Oct 31, 2:18 pm, Stefan Lang <perfectly.normal.hac...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Since it's a bad idea anyway to reassign such variables
> (metaprogramming might be an exception), you can use
> Ruby's constants for this purpose:
>
>     module MyModule
>
>         A = 20
>
>         # can access A from anywhere within MyModule,
>         # including method definitions, nested classes, etc.
>
>     end
>
>     puts MyModule::A  # access from outside of MyModule

Oops, forgot to reply to this bit.

This is not what I'm really looking for. I don't care about accessing
variables within another unrelated scope - in fact, unless explicitly
allowed, it should not be allowed. I only care about accessing
variables in enclosing scopes.