[#3986] Re: Principle of least effort -- another Ruby virtue. — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>

> Principle of Least Effort.

14 messages 2000/07/14

[#4043] What are you using Ruby for? — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

16 messages 2000/07/16

[#4139] Facilitating Ruby self-propagation with the rig-it autopolymorph application. — Conrad Schneiker <schneik@...>

Hi,

11 messages 2000/07/20

[ruby-talk:04172] Re: Basic variable question

From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-07-22 16:14:06 UTC
List: ruby-talk #4172
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.

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