From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@...>
Date: 2003-12-21T10:18:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Lexically scoped variables

On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 10:06:36 +0900, Gregory Millam wrote:
> if true
> foo = BigObject.new
> .. manipulate foo
> end
> puts foo # doesn't exist

This is incorrect.  In Ruby, the binding of 'foo' continues to exist after  
the 'if' statement.

> def scope
> yield if block_given?
> end
> --
> scope {
> foo = BigObject.new
> .. manipulate foo
> }
> puts foo # doesn't exist
> Of course, if you do
> foo = ""
> scope {
> foo = ..
> }
> p foo # What you assigned to it within scope.
> Just don't initialize 'foo' outside of the scope.

I'm not sure what you are trying to say here.  This is simply a re-iteration  
of everything I said in my original email.

-- ES