From: Steve Tuckner <stevetuckner@...>
Date: 2004-09-29T12:26:44+09:00
Subject: Re: DRY ruby idiom

Florian Gross wrote:

> require 'binding_of_caller'
>
> def and_set(name, value)
>   return if value.nil?
>   Binding.of_caller do |context|
>     eval("#{name} = ObjectSpace._id2ref(#{value.id})", context)
>   end
> end
>
> and_set(:var, val)
>
> Not sure if you were looking for this kind of solution though. :)
>
It probably does the trick (though I can't understand the 
binding_of_caller without more study), but was quite a bit more 
heavyweight than I was looking for. Thanks for trying... ;-)

Steve Tuckner