From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-11-17T19:52:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Local Variable Scope in Ruby2

On Monday, November 17, 2003, 9:21:15 AM, Harry wrote [snipped]:

> So, with the new semantics, how do we do things like ...

> a = nil

> some_collection.each do |x|
>    if some_condition
>       a = ...
>       break
>    end
> end


This works in 1.8 and looks better than the above code:

  a = (1..10).each do |n|
    if n > 3
      break n
    end
  end

  # a == 4

Gavin