I don't know enough yet about the Ruby internals to understand how NODE_LVAR and NODE_DVAR are implemented/interpretted. What I was thinking of was that the break would propagate back through the yield statement as a break in it's context and only loop the yield is enclosed in. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "ts" <decoux / moulon.inra.fr> To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk / netlab.co.jp> Cc: <ruby-talk / netlab.co.jp> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 11:13 AM Subject: [ruby-talk:5821] Re: local variables (nested, in-block, parameters, etc.) > >>>>> "Y" == Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz / zetabits.com> writes: > > How do you do this ? > > Y> [1,2,3].each{|i6| break if i6 % 2 == 0} > ^^ > here you have a node NODE_DVAR > > Y> will be a plain local variable. > > This mean that you must re-read the whole def to modify all the NODE_DVAR > in a NODE_LVAR, no ? > > > I've forgotten to reply to this, sorry > > Y> Are you (and others) going to attend Linux Expo Paris? > > Unfortunately it's not possible for me. > > > Guy Decoux > > > > >