On Nov 1, 2008, at 4:08 PM, Yuh-Ruey Chen wrote: > I'm not following you. Ruby uses lexical scope? AFAIK, it only does > that constants and not local variables. if you are having a hard time doing something perhaps you could show it? one thing ruby does well is get things done with a happy medium of abstraction. unless something stands in the way of getting things done simply it's sort of a non-issue don't you think? cheers. a @ http://codeforpeople.com/ -- we can deny everything, except that we have the possibility of being better. simply reflect on that. h.h. the 14th dalai lama