From: Vivek Nallur <nvivek@...>
Date: 2003-09-25T12:37:01+09:00
Subject: Re: value binding and function binding


|> I was just wandering through some lisp code and I saw this:
|> (let ((x 1))
|> 	(flet ((x (y) (+ x y)))
|> 		(x x)))
|
|At this point, your x variable is out of scope, so this:
|
|>   x += y
|
|gives you that error (because here, x is uninitialized).

|> All I want to do is to check if ruby supports the same identifier having
|> both a value binding as well as a function binding.
|
|Yes, both inside and outside the method (separately):
|
|  ruby -e 'def x(y); x = y; puts x; end; x = 1; x x'
|  =>  1
Hmmm...Many thanks (btw, can I start with a capital letter after
ellipses?)

So, ruby does support having multiple bindings, but the
|>   x += y
is a scoping issue(Would dynamic scope have helped?).

regs
Vivek
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