From: badboy <badboy@...>
Date: 2009-03-09T19:44:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Setting the contents of a file to a variable?

Matthias Reitinger schrieb:
> Brian Candler wrote:
>> BTW, local variables which are first seen within a block are private to 
>> that block, so if you want do use a local variable do this:
>>
>>   guess = nil
>>   File.open("guess.txt") do |file|
>>     guess = file.gets
>>   end
>>   ... now 'guess' contains the result of reading the 1st line of file
> 
> Or even this:
> 
>   guess = File.open("guess.txt") do |file|
>     file.gets
>   end
> 
> Maybe even this (Symbol#to_proc implementation/Ruby 1.9 required):
> 
>   guess = File.open("guess.txt", &:gets)
> 
> -Matthias
> 
did you read my post? why should we use a construct with a block if
there are several methods to do this directly?