Hello Yukihiro,

Friday, October 04, 2002, 12:19:50 PM, you wrote:

YM> Yes.  But I feel "':' to indicate local" is ugly.  Many (or most)
YM> people want their block parameters "local to the block".  But "':' to
YM> indicate local" requires additional mark for common case.  "':' to
YM> indicate *external*" is better in this sense, but this also breaks
YM> existing code.

may be some pragma like 'use ruby1.7" can help in providing
non-compatible changes to language?

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