From: Joseph McDonald <joe@...>
Date: 2001-02-24T08:54:41+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11418] Re: binding to callers namespace.



> "Joseph McDonald" <joe@vpop.net> writes:
> 
> > > However, you might want to think about alternative designs to get the
> > > same effect... this is going to get messy pretty quickly :)
> > 
> > Yes.  very messy.  OK, here's another question.  Is it possible
> > to get the "name" of a variable that is passed as an argument.
> 
> You could pass it in as a symbol. Would that help?
> 
>      a.setvars(:i, :j)

perhaps close.  I can't seem to get the value when passed in as a symbol.

thanks,
-joe