From: James Coglan <jcoglan@...>
Date: 2009-03-20T20:27:13+09:00
Subject: Re: nested methods

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2009/3/20 Leo <minilith@gmail.com>

> > Can someone explain why the nested method hides the outer method?
>
> There are no nested methods in ruby (similar to smalltalk, eiffel,
> java and unlike scheme, python etc.).


This statement could confuse people given the above. Clearly you can define
methods inside other methods, the point is that the 'inner' method is not
local to the outer one. The inner one becomes defined in the same scope as
the outer one, and does not remember the environment it was created in.
Methods are not closures, unlike blocks/procs/lambdas.

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