From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-02-06T18:00:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Local variables & blocks

On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 08:55:30AM +0900, Brian Candler wrote:
> If you're writing threaded code, you will have to use a trick to get
> thread-local variables:
> 
>    def local    # something like this will be
>      yield      # built into the language
>    end
> 
>    Thread.new {
>      local { |a,b,c|
>        ... a,b,c are local
>      }
>    }

Some sugar?

Thread.new(*args) { |args| { |a,b,c|
  .... args contains arguments
  .... a, b, c are local
}}


At any rate, we're adding some kind of declaration to Ruby :-|
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