From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-10-16T14:55:10+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:5567] Re: local variables (nested, in-block, parameters, etc.)

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:5553] Re: local variables (nested, in-block, parameters, etc.)"
    on 00/10/16, Dave Thomas <Dave@thomases.com> writes:

|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

Conceptually, yes.  But I think there may be a room for better
description (hopefully natural to men).

For example:

  lambda{<a,b,c|d,e,f> ...}
  # a,b,c as parameters.
  # d, e, f for local variables valid during the block.

							matz.