Closures and for loops in Ruby

Question

I\'m kind of new to Ruby and some of the closure logic has me a confused. Consider this code:

array = []
for i in (1..5)
  array << lambda {i}
end
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Answer 1

What version of Ruby are you running this on? 1.8 does not have block scope for local variables, so j is still hanging around (and equal to 5) even after the end of the for.