From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-10-19T08:17:09+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:5683] Re: local variables (nested, in-block, parameters, etc.)

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:5659] Re: local variables (nested, in-block, parameters, etc.)"
    on 00/10/18, "Conrad Schneiker/Austin/Contr/IBM" <schneik@us.ibm.com> writes:

|Speaking of arguments, maybe |(a), b| could be used (with reference to 
|your example) to mean that a's scope transcends the iterator, while b is 
|strictly iterator-local. I think this would be cleanest way for the most 
|common cases (although if backward compatibility were the top concern, the 
|convention would be the other way around).

I understand your idea, altough `(a),b' is a valid lhs, so that
notation should be changed.

							matz.