From: "Stathy G. Touloumis" <stathy.touloumis@...>
Date: 2002-10-03T03:22:36+09:00
Subject: Re: bugs


> >> k='Hello'
> >> [1,2,3].map {|k| k}
> >> puts k
> >>
> >> It prints 3 under ruby1!
> >
> >Yes, using block argument equals to assignment to it.
>
>But shouldn't it be local to the block? It may cause nice errors...
>If it is available outside the block, it is a Bad Idea(tm).

This is an issue discussed previously on this list as well as feature 
enhancements to Ruby in future versions if I am not mistaken.  In the above 
code k is defined outside the code block and that is why it's assignment 
within the code block is retained outside of it.