From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-05-31T00:43:02+09:00
Subject: Re: local variable and local variable in block behave differently

Hi,

In message "Re: local variable and local variable in block behave differently"
    on 03/05/30, Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> writes:

|> 1.times do
|>   if false
|>     a = ""
|>   else
|>     1.times { a = "a" }
|>   end
|>   puts defined? a # => local-variable(in-block)
|>   puts a          # => nil
|> end
|
|OK, that's weird... I would have thought that the assignment to 'a' in the
|inner block would have bound to the 'a' brought into existence in the outer
|block, but it hasn't.

Maybe a bug.  Let me check.

							matz.