From: Sebastian Hungerecker <sepp2k@...>
Date: 2008-12-03T17:13:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Memory usage with blocks

John Ky wrote:
> Why doesn't ruby detect that tmp isn't used in the block and not keep a
> reference to it?

Because tmp can still be accessed using the block even if it's not used in the 
block directly:
def foo()
  x = 5
  lambda {puts "Hello world"}
end
hello_world_block = foo
eval("x", hello_world_block) #=> 5

HTH,
Sebastian
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