From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2002-09-14T21:27:51+09:00
Subject: Re: private variables

>>>>> "G" == GOTO Kentaro <gotoken@notwork.org> writes:

G>   "nestable local variable"

 Well, personnaly I'll call it "block local variable". For this reason

pigeon% ruby -e '_a = 12; 1.times { puts _a }'
-e:1: undefined local variable or method `_a' for #<Object:0x401bda4c> (NameError)
        from -e:1:in `times'
        from -e:1
pigeon% 

 The reason is that you can cut/paste the block and you have always the
 same result : if the variable was assigned in the block ruby find it,
 otherwise it try to call the method.

Guy Decoux