> Seems like a rare thing to do. This is another thing you cannot do with > the proposed change: > > last = nil > enum.each {|last|} > puts "last was #{last}" last = nil last = enum.last I think, out of 100 uses of iterator, less then one would be the example you shown above. Key point of this thread was, what is more convenient, To keep variable in iterator scoped in its block, even though the same name already used as vairable name or not. Mohammad