Re: FYI: Ruby 1.6.0 - An object-oriented language for quick and easy programming

[in Ruby documentation:]
> > The default variable scope rules for Ruby (default: local) are much
> > better suited for medium-to-large scale programming tasks; no "my,
> > my, my" proliferation is needed for safe Ruby programming

* Dave Storrs ([email protected]) [20 Sep 2000 02:08]:
> Actually, this is the bit that interests me. Most times, when you
> create a variable, you *do* want local scope.
[...]

Yes, but you'd need something that is a 'create variable' function.
Otherwise, if you typo you create a new locally scoped variable. That's
not what we want, surely?

The joy of 'my' (and the equivalent declarations in C/Pascal/etc.) is
that it traps such things.


cheers,
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