From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-10-16T03:59:10+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:5553] Re: local variables (nested, in-block, parameters, etc.)

matz@zetabits.com (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:

> Guy's idea (oh, we have at least 2 Guys here ;-) this is Guy Decoux's
> idea) in [ruby-talk:5545] of explicit dynamic variable declaration is
> interesting too.  This is similar to my idea described in [ruby-talk:5531](2).
> This may solve the problem 2.  But I feel this requires more
> discussion to be a solid solution.

If we went with the {<i> ..} thing, then would we need anything
special for this? Couldn't we just have

   def dvar
      yield
   end


   a = 1
   dvar { <a,b,c>
     a = 99
   }

   p a #=> 1



Dave