From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-10-19T08:15:47+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:5681] Re: local variables (nested, in-block, parameters, etc.)

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:5673] Re: local variables (nested, in-block, parameters, etc.)"
    on 00/10/19, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> writes:

|Then 'for' simply isn't syntactic sugar for the braces or for the
|do...end.   It does a similar job, but does it differently.  The author
|may not be confused, but confuses the issue for the reader by putting
|things like this.  No disrespect intended: creating clear documentation
|is non-trivial!

Agreed; We should really work on poor documentation.

							matz.