From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-01-31T09:44:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Local variables & blocks

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Probably you misunderstood "block local variables" either the current one,
> or new one.  "module" statement always introduce a new scope, and the scope
> is *not* the module's namespace.  Local variables vanishes after the
> evaluation of the module body, unless they are captured by closures.  As a
> consequence, "temp" does not survive after the "module" statement.


yes. i have confused scope with namespaces, but not entirely i think.

under the new rules if i :

  module M
    CLOSURE = lambda { x = 42 }
  end

  include M

would  'x' be defined here or not?

-a

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