From: ts Date: 2002-09-14T00:45:25+09:00 Subject: Re: private variables >>>>> "d" == dblack writes: d> I think Christoph's point (with the colon and the rest of the d> punctuation) was to illustrate the visual and stylistic dangers d> of such things :-) No, no see [ruby-talk:12555] { e = 1 # e may or may not be local to the block f := 2 # f is always local to this block } Guy Decoux