From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@...>
Date: 2003-12-21T09:59:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Lexically scoped variables

On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 07:06:20 +0900, Gregory Millam wrote:
> Received: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 06:47:53 +0900
> And lo Eric wrote:
> > scope {
> > foo = BigObject.new
> > ... manipulate foo ...
> > }
> Take an idea from File?
> BigObject.new do |foo|
> ... manipulate foo ...
> end

Thanks, but this proposal is very special-case, whereas I'm looking for a  
general purpose solution for automatic clean-up of variables in a  
long-running interactive environment, much like my scope{} solution provides,  
or { and } blocks in C.  In my example, BigObject was used merely to  
illustrate that the user might be working with memory hungry objects in  
various ways.

-- ES