From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-07-23T01:14:06+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:04172] Re: Basic variable question

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:04164] Basic variable question"
    on 00/07/21, Johann Hibschman <johann@physics.berkeley.edu> writes:

|I'm trying to figure out, well, where all the variables go when I
|load a file.

`load' is done in a separate namespace for local variables, which is a
copy of the toplevel namespace.  This namespace will be vanished after
the load.  So, the answer is HEAVEN (or hell, depending their virtue).

							matz.