On Monday, February 17, 2003, 12:18:37 AM, ts wrote: d>> Which, in turn, makes me reluctantly think that it would be better to d>> have local be the default, and some way to explicitly import variables d>> from outside the block into the block. I think the impact on the d>> overall look of Ruby would be enormously less. > Well, you want "export" rather than "import", no ? Sounds good to me, just as it did when it was first suggested! Gavin