From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Date: 2000-10-26T15:07:28+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:5867] Re: local variables (nested, in-block, parameters, etc.) Hi, In message "[ruby-talk:5861] Re: local variables (nested, in-block, parameters, etc.)" on 00/10/26, Mathieu Bouchard writes: |here the effect is widely exaggerated; real situations wouldn't show so |much of a difference. What I'm curious about is, if this is the |improvement, then what was the original situation? Plain "local" variables are accessed via arrays; The original situation was no "dynamic". When I had to introduce "dynamic" variables, I didn't want to remove array access. matz.