From: Stefan Scholl <stesch@...>
Date: 2002-09-23T21:30:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Larry Wall's comments on Ruby

"Gavin Sinclair" <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> writes:

> One of the coolest (not highest-value, just coolest) things about Ruby, IMO, is
> that "for a in x do ... end" is *nothing more than syntax sugar* for "x.each do
> |a| ... end".  This is supreme orthoganality.  Being able to apply "for ..." to
> your own classes is wonderful.

It's a bit more than syntax sugar. Watch the scope of the local
variables!