From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2003-02-16T22:18:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Lexical scope and closures

>>>>> "d" == dblack  <dblack@candle.superlink.net> writes:

d> As one of the two or three people in the world who think that Ruby's
d> scoping rules are actually fine, I have to say that after all this
d> debate, people had better use whatever the new thing is, whether it's
d> necessary or not!  :-)

 Well, the rule actually is simple : a variable belong in the scope where
 it was first assigned.

d> Which, in turn, makes me reluctantly think that it would be better to
d> have local be the default, and some way to explicitly import variables
d> from outside the block into the block.  I think the impact on the
d> overall look of Ruby would be enormously less.

 Well, you want "export" rather than "import", no ?


Guy Decoux