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naeu_: does anyone in here feel up for explaining the difference between lexical scopes and bindings?
[21:46] naeu_: i.e. how this works: x = 1; proc { y = 2; proc { puts [x,y] }}
[21:47] headius: lopex: I wish there were more specs for 1.9 
[21:47] headius: naeu_: a binding aggregates a lexical scope and some other stuff
[21:47] headius: a proc is essentially a captured binding plus a block of code
[21:47] headius: lexical scope is simply a hierarchy of variable scopes and some other stuff
[21:48] naeu_: so the code snippet i wrote just now is an example of a two-tiered hierarchy of variable scopes?
[21:48] headius: that's right
[21:48] david_koontz: headius: any ideas on the stack out of memory error I posted earlier?
[21:48] headius: well, three actually
[21:48] headius: there's an outer scope around the first proc
[21:48] headius: variable scopes only go as high as the neared method or class body
[21:48] naeu_: and there are constructs which explicitly define where those scopes start and stop such as method and class definitions?
[21:49] headius: see, you understand it already
[21:49] david_koontz: getting " Your application used more stack memory than the safety cap." even when setting -Xss1000k
[21:49] headius: david_koontz: didn't see it, repaste? sounds like a bug fo' sho'
[21:49] naeu_: i'm at that really bad phase where i understand quite a bit, but that makes it worse 
[21:49] david_koontz: !pastie