From f37d42fc7b9e66463caa17506cfd47f8b4e47983 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 12:23:57 +0900
Subject: [ruby/erb] [DOC] Fix the description of #new_toplevel
 (https://github.com/ruby/erb/pull/78)

https://github.com/ruby/erb/commit/de0f18579e
---
 lib/erb.rb | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/erb.rb b/lib/erb.rb
index d88cce9f4b..e72fe95572 100644
--- a/lib/erb.rb
+++ b/lib/erb.rb
@@ -999,8 +999,9 @@ class ERB
   # See [Default Binding][default binding].
   #
   # Argument `symbols` is an array of symbols;
-  # each symbol `symbol` is used to define (unless already defined) a variable in the binding
-  # whose name is `symbol` and whose value is `nil`.
+  # each symbol `symbol` is defined as a new variable to hide and
+  # prevent it from overwriting a variable of the same name already
+  # defined within the binding.
   #
   # [default binding]: rdoc-ref:ERB@Default+Binding
   def new_toplevel(vars = nil)
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