> If it gets block scope (which Ruby also doesn't really have, I think?) Yeah, it does, but it's a little different. Here I iterate through an array in a block

> If it gets block scope (which Ruby also doesn't really have, I think?) Yeah, it does, but it's a little different. Here I iterate through an array in a block, assigning the current value to a local variable. Afterwards you can see that local_var remains undefind in the higher scope. [norman@elis] +> irb >> [1, 2, 3].each {|i| local_var = i; puts local_var} 1 2 3 => [1, 2, 3] >> puts local_var NameError: undefined local variable or method `local_var' for main:Object from (irb):2 from :0 >> However unlike C-like languages, Ruby doesn't treat if/else type statements as a block. So for example this works in Ruby: >> if true >> local_var = "hello" >> end => "hello" >> puts local_var hello