From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-05-28T18:27:01+09:00
Subject: Re: confused about scope of block parameter

Hi,

In message "confused about scope of block parameter"
    on 02/05/28, "k" <kturing@yahoo.com> writes:

|   foo = "Outer"
|   (lambda {|foo| print foo}).call("Inner")
|   print foo

Unlike Lisp, Ruby's block parameters does not override outer variable
names.  They are just assignments if names already exists.  It's been
discussed before, and alternativeg form of parameter declaration,
e.g. lambda{<foo> print foo}, is proposed (but not yet implemented).

							matz.