At 1:07 PM -0700 7/2/02, Larry Wall wrote:
>Are you sure Ruby isn't just using dynamic variables?  My information may
>be old, but that's all it seemed like to me.  A certain amount of confusion
>naturally arises in the Ruby world because of the absence of explicit
>declaration, so the name binding rules get to be rather complicated.

I'm pretty sure the iterators they build are just closures with named 
arguments, and behave as any other closure would behave. There's no 
symbolic references going on.
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                                         Dan

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