From: Brian Adkins <lojicdotcom@...>
Date: 2009-03-20T21:12:15+09:00
Subject: Re: nested methods

James Coglan <jcoglan@googlemail.com> writes:

> [Note:  parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]
>
> 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, 

Isn't being defined in the same scope the antithesis of nesting?

> and does not remember the environment it was created in.
> Methods are not closures, unlike blocks/procs/lambdas.
>
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> James Coglan
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