Ruby accessing outer variables in nested function

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As far as I know, defining a named function within a function does not give you access to any local variables.

What you can do instead is use a Proc:

def foo(x)
  bar = lambda do
    puts x
  end
  bar.call
  42
end

foo(5)

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