From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-06-13T10:16:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Empowering Symbols

Hi,

In message "Empowering Symbols"
    on 02/06/13, Nikodemus Siivola <tsiivola@cc.hut.fi> writes:

|The symbols as lvalues idea:
|
|n = 1
|m = 3
|(n..m).each { |:n| :m = n**2 puts "#{m}" }  #=> 1, 4, 9
|p n  #=> 1
|p m  #=> 3
|
| -- what are the related problems?

I guess this is a different appearance of "|:a|" and ":="
combination, i.e. ":a = n" instead of "a:=n".

							matz.