From: "Thomas Søndergaard" Date: 2002-07-24T21:39:24+09:00 Subject: RE: Eval question > I see. Thanks. > > Is there anyway other way to create locals without explicitly > setting them? val = nil eval "val = 10" puts val # -> 10 So val is created in a scope local to the eval invocation, unless it already exists in the nesting scope. I think :-) Thomas