From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2004-07-16T03:42:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Stumped newbie...

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, flattree wrote:

> Here is what I'm trying to do. Simulate nodes with objects. The nodes
>
> are updated with the class's update method, now where I'm stuck is
>
> acessing outside variables within the method.
>
> Simply, how do I refer to an objects state within a method?
>
> class Gate
>  def initialize
>    @state = rand(2)
>  end
>  def state
>    @state
>  end
>  def update
>    @state = a[1].state
>  end
> end
>
> num = 2
>
> a = Array.new
> for b in 0..(num - 1)
>  a[b] = Gate.new
>  puts a[b].state
> end
>
> puts
> puts a[0].state
> a[0].update
> puts a[0].state
>
>
> Can anyone tell me how to do this?

is this what you mean?

   class Gate
     def update other
       @state = other.state
     end
   end

   a[0].update a[1]
   puts a[0].state

i'm not totally clear what 'a' is supposed to be in your original update
methods.

cheers.

-a
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