On Feb 28, 2006, at 11:13 AM, mental@[...].net wrote:

>  I think a better solution would be requiring explicit variable
>  declarations.  Let variables be unambiguously variables.
> 
>  The implementation details would hairy too though.

Word. Speaking of which explicitly declared variables could help with  
with the whole closure grabs every possible memory reference from  
here to eternity. Then again, I like ruby, I can live with self.x =  
if ruby can.