From: Joe Laughlin <Joseph.V.Laughlin@...>
Date: 2004-08-13T05:51:09+09:00
Subject: Re: getting object attributes

David A. Black wrote:
> Hi --
>
> On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Joe Laughlin wrote:
>
>> I want to do something similar to this:
>>
>> class Foo
>>   @goo = 2
>>   @boo = 5
>> end
>>
>> foo = Foo.new
>>
>> ["goo", "boo"].each do |attribute|
>>   puts foo.attribute   # should print out 2 on the first
>> loop, 5 on the second loop
>> end
>>
>>
>> Ideas?
>
> Clarification requested:
>
> Do you want instances of foo to be able to get access to
> the instance variables of Foo itself?  Or do you want
> instances of Foo (such as foo) to have their own
> instances variables called @goo and @boo, and reader
> methods to access them?  You could do a bunch of
> different variations on this but I'm not sure which
> scenario you're trying to implement.
>
>
> David

The second one, I believe.