From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-02-13T08:27:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Lexical scope and closures

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Candler" <B.Candler@pobox.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>; <patrickdlogan@attbi.com>
Cc: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: Lexical scope and closures


> Matz is thinking of changing the behaviour for a future version of Ruby as
> follows:
>
> (1) block parameters are always locally scoped (so '|x|' in that example
> will behave as if the outside 'x' did not exist, although a warning will
be
> printed because of the re-use of the name; but x will still be 0 after the
> iterator has finished)

I didn't realize that. So we ARE breaking
old code, eh?

Hal