From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-06-13T13:01:34+09:00
Subject: Re: a new block parameter/variable notation (Re: ruby-dev summary 17252-17356)

Hi,

In message "Re: a new block parameter/variable notation (Re: ruby-dev summary 17252-17356)"
    on 02/06/13, Avi Bryant <avi@beta4.com> writes:

|Matz, what about making this distinction more general than just
|block-local vs. method local?  That is, always be able to use := to
|create a new binding rather than modifying an existing one.  So, if
|you had

<akr@m17n.org> foresaw your idea in [ruby-dev:17346] a week ago.

|Too lispy?

Probably.  Variable shadowing is not encouraged at all in Ruby.

							matz.