From: ts Date: 2004-04-18T19:51:52+09:00 Subject: Re: New Local Variable Scope rule >>>>> "D" == David Alan Black writes: D> ... Thread.new do |a| # etc. or like this local do |a| and you see immediately an advantage : you can cut/paste your block and ruby will do always the same thing because the block-local variable is directly associated with its block via || This is not true with 1.8 Guy Decoux