Oh, here's with the new notation you're using. Sorry about that.

self.outer = []
func = -> n { self.outer << n }
func[1]

On Friday, April 20, 2012 2:32:08 PM UTC-10, IAmNan wrote:
>
> Are you doing this in the model, and is outer a member variable? If so, 
> did you forget to use self on it?
>
> self.outer = []
> func = lambda { |n| self.outer << n }
> func[1]
>
>
> On Friday, April 20, 2012 12:37:14 PM UTC-10, ms wrote:
>>
>> Hey, 
>>
>> thank you for reading this post. 
>>
>> Why won't this work? 
>>
>> outer = [] 
>> func = ->(n) { outer << n } 
>> func[1] 
>>
>> => outer stays empty. Why that? Since outer is readable in the lambda 
>> function it should be changeable as it is the same instance of the 
>> array. I am a bit confused. 
>>
>> Thanks you very much for your answers. 
>> ms 
>>
>

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