From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata Date: 2002-10-03T05:23:50+09:00 Subject: Re: bugs Hi Michael, You can browse the just-started list at "http://www.glue.umd.edu/~billtj/ruby.html" (I will change it to HTML format based on an input from someone); this is item 3) in the list. Hopefully you will get fewer Ruby gotcha in the future. Regards, Bill ========================================================================= Michael Campbell wrote: > This is a "Ruby Gotcha". *IF* you declare a variable before the > block, it uses that one. If you don't, it creates its own, but its > scope IS the block. > I find this... odd, and I don't like it, but that's the way it is.