From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2003-01-30T03:35:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Local variables & blocks

ahoward wrote:
> wouldn't that break backward compatibility since any code like
> 
> x = 'something completely unrelated'
> ....
> # 1000 lines of code
> ....
> 
> block_method do |arg|
>   x = 42
> end
> 
> would clobber the previous x?

That's how it works now, isn't it?