On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 11:01:59PM +0900, Martin DeMello wrote:
> Pretty much, yeah. But in Ruby, with everything contained in methods and
> classes anyway, I tend not to bother so much about the global namespace.
> If one had to distinguish by wa of keywords, I'd rather see a 'local'
> keyword than an 'export'.

Since we're talking about lexical scope here, how about using ``my'' instead
of ``local''? ;-)

(Sorry, couldn't resist!)

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