From: patrickdlogan@... (Patrick Logan)
Date: 2003-02-12T13:21:40+09:00
Subject: Lexical scope and closures

I read recently a flaw I did not previously know about...

"Blocks (closures) in Ruby do not introduce a new scope, only methods
do.
This is generally acknowledged as a flaw by the Ruby community but is
left
in for backwards compatibility.  For example:

x = 0
[1,2,3].each{|x| print x}
#x now equals 3"

Of course this is just wrong. I am hoping no one expects an
implementation of Ruby to actually behave this way.

Is it generally accepted that programs should not expect this? I would
not be ashamed to break this code in a new implementation of Ruby.

-Patrick