From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-02-15T15:09:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Lexical scope and closures

Hi,

In message "Re: Lexical scope and closures"
    on 03/02/15, Mauricio Fern�ndez <batsman.geo@yahoo.com> writes:

|Would you reconsider dropping ':=' ?
|
|arr.each { |i|
|  a := ..
|  b := ..
|  c = ..
|  ...
|}
|
|involves fewer keystrokes. Moreover (I don't know if it was your
|original idea or not, but just to be sure)

That was my original idea, but I now feel that it's too few clue to
tell they are local to the block.  "let" reminds us local variable, if
we know some knowledge about lisp or ML.  ":=" reminds us about
assignment (from Pascal knowledge), but has no information about
local.

							matz.